From BPC Publishing
Psychedelic Tricksters: A True Secret History of LSD (New Edition) (Psychedelic History) Paperback – 8 Jun. 2022
by David Black (Author)
Timothy Leary, High Priest of LSD, predicted: “‘The next war for control of this planet and beyond has to do with the control of consciousness”.From the late-1940s onwards, the US Central Intelligence Agency secretly attempted to use psychedelic drugs for purposes of social control and psychological warfare. But in the 1960s, LSD escaped its captors as a new generation of rebellious youth on both sides of the Atlantic discovered psychedelics as means for expanding consciousness rather than controlling it. Exploding many of the myths surrounding LSD, the CIA and the counterculture, this book explores the roles and motivations of the ‘Tricksters’ on both sides in this world-changing phenomenon.
LSD UNDERGROUND: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love (Psychedelic History) Paperback – 21 Mar. 2022
by David Black (Author)
In 1968, an expatriate American Beat writer and two Liverpool chemistry students launched a conspiracy to illegally manufacture LSD. It grew into a global industry, supplying the festival-going youth of the 1970s with tens of millions of trips.
It took the police several years to realise what had been established under their noses: laboratories manufacturing LSD; supply-chains for ingredients; and distribution networks which resembled the structure of terrorist cells. In 1977, ‘Operation Julie’, complete with a team of undercover ‘hippie cops’, carried out the ‘biggest drugs bust in British history’.
The hippies wanted to bring about mass psychedelic enlightenment, but their idealism was compromised by the exigencies of running an organised crime group. Their prosecution was weaponised in a culture war to uphold ‘traditional’ values at the very time Margaret Thatcher was presenting herself as their enforcer.
Based on documented testimony and personal accounts from ‘both’ sides, this book presents for the first time a roller-coaster, blow-by-blow account of the genesis, rise and fall of the LSD Underground.
It took the police several years to realise what had been established under their noses: laboratories manufacturing LSD; supply-chains for ingredients; and distribution networks which resembled the structure of terrorist cells. In 1977, ‘Operation Julie’, complete with a team of undercover ‘hippie cops’, carried out the ‘biggest drugs bust in British history’.
The hippies wanted to bring about mass psychedelic enlightenment, but their idealism was compromised by the exigencies of running an organised crime group. Their prosecution was weaponised in a culture war to uphold ‘traditional’ values at the very time Margaret Thatcher was presenting herself as their enforcer.
Based on documented testimony and personal accounts from ‘both’ sides, this book presents for the first time a roller-coaster, blow-by-blow account of the genesis, rise and fall of the LSD Underground.
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