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LSD UNDERGROUND: Operation Julie, the Microdot Gang and the Brotherhood of Eternal Love
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 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 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.
145 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 23, 2022
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October 16, 2023
good background on old politics
Every now and then a chill blows in the wind and pushes us backwards in time and as i write this war is on the brink but certainly these old hippies were against war and represented an indigenous purity to be desired … a type of inner magic at peace with anarchy and due to the medical war on mortality there is just too much taboo… so this does have specific years and strains and gangs and names and locations which show a cool world but sadly the author mentioned david solomon he wasnt as big as other authors and i fear the biblical term of losing salt is like … pretty much the issue here: so yeah its a spiritual war but resting on material laurels like crystals and dots could definitely attract evil eye
Every now and then a chill blows in the wind and pushes us backwards in time and as i write this war is on the brink but certainly these old hippies were against war and represented an indigenous purity to be desired … a type of inner magic at peace with anarchy and due to the medical war on mortality there is just too much taboo… so this does have specific years and strains and gangs and names and locations which show a cool world but sadly the author mentioned david solomon he wasnt as big as other authors and i fear the biblical term of losing salt is like … pretty much the issue here: so yeah its a spiritual war but resting on material laurels like crystals and dots could definitely attract evil eye
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