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I'm pretty sure Nick Sand's arrest in 1996 was the cause of the sudden scarcity of LSD on the market 20 years ago. According to Erowid ( https://erowid.org/cult

I'm pretty sure Nick Sand's arrest in 1996 was the cause of the sudden scarcity of LSD on the market 20 years ago. According to Erowid ( https://erowid.org/culture/characters/sand_nick/sand_nick_biography1.shtml https://erowid.org/culture/characters/sand_nick/sand_nick_bi... ), the RCMP tested samples from his lab and found their purity to be >100%, suggesting that their reference samples had degraded.

eip 9y ago
"According to court testimony, Pickard's lab produced up to a kilogram of LSD approximately every five weeks for short periods. Despite criticism for their methodology, the DEA contends that following their arrest there was a 95% drop in the availability of LSD in the US in the two years following the arrest.[1] Pickard himself has long denied these claims. In his 2007 paper "International LSD Prevalence — Factors Affecting Proliferation and Control", Pickard suggests that since the 1960s LSD production has always been de-centralized. As to a turn-of-the-century decline in availability due to his own arrest, Pickard highlights the fact that LSD availability had been on the decline since 1996, a fact which he correlates in part with the exponential growth of availability and demand for MDMA and other hallucinogenic drugs.[8] The actual quantity of LSD seized by the DEA remains unclear, with figures ranging from 198.9 grams to 41.3 kilograms." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Leonard_Pickard