Owsley, Stanley

In 1967, Dr. Richard Alpert put Hitchcock in contact with Augustus Owsley Stanley III. As Owsley s agent, Hitchcock retained the law firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin and Standard (24) to conduct a feasibility study of several Caribbean countries to determine the best location for the production and distribution of LSD and hashish. 

Perry, C. Augustus Owsley Stanley III Rolling Stone-, Novemeber 25, 1982 Issue 383... 

By 1965, the first massive manufacturing and distributing operation had come into being—Owsley s marvelous "tabs. Yet Stanley Owsley came from a background of interest in amphetamine, and some users soon raised questions as to whether he liked to add "speed to the product. Bruce Eisner, who has written much about the question of psychedelic purity, talked with Owsley s lab assistant, Tim Scully, and believes that speed was never added. 

Stanley Owsley entered the trade after having been frustrated in his efforts to obtain pure LSD. His trademarks—"White Lightning, "Purple Haze —and others such as "Batman, "Purple Double-Domes and "Midnight Hour —were assodated with "tabs of high quality. An enormous amount of this production was given away, yet Owsley became perhaps the first LSD millionaire. When he was captured in 1967,200 fresh grams—a million substantial doses—were confiscated. 

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