Party Vibe

breakzhead, i know that crystal can be cut quite easily, but as a rule of thumb, if I divide a gram by 8 or 10, and everyone is very high, and it cost me around £30 (or half that for a few G), the quality and value are excellent.

So many pressings of pills start out in the market place fine, and rapidly deteriorate as the makers try and sell off the byproducts and lab error products to recoup some of their costs/make more profit using the good name of the logo.

I used to work in import/export around mainland europe and whenever I was buying a large quantity aimed at the masses, although always good quality, I would invariably be offered a handful of superior gear for my own use. Some party goers may be lucky enough to pick up some really good strong little ones, but the odds are against you.

In the late 60’s 90% of the world’s LSD was made in wales by a single close team. Two scientists made the compound, while one other was left to dose it onto blotters. After they were all busted it transpired that while the producers had wanted to give everyone a good trip, the tabletter had been halving the dose and making a packet for himself. Don’t know what the moral of this tale is; I’ll leave that up to you.

There is no easy way to know what you are ingesting, but if you buy a few G of crystal I believe it is much easier to determine purity. Testing pills will only give an idea of MDMA content, but no indication of other byproducts. When testing crystal it is far easier compare test results with weight tested, giving a more accurate indication.

Originally posted by globalloon
In the late 60’s 90% of the world’s LSD was made in wales by a single close team. Two scientists made the compound, while one other was left to dose it onto blotters. After they were all busted it transpired that while the producers had wanted to give everyone a good trip, the tabletter had been halving the dose and making a packet for himself. Don’t know what the moral of this tale is; I’ll leave that up to you.

Operation Julie – The best acid ever?

The late 1970s saw Operation Julie, which netted some 1.5kg of LSD, enough for 7.5 million 1970s doses of the drug, or up to 20-30 million doses at today”s levels. These were small tablets or “microdots” of high purity and potency, produced in a remote farmhouse in Wales. The “conspirators” were arrested and jailed in 1978 following an intensive police surveillance operation led by Dick Lee, who along with undecover officers, subsequently resigned from the police. Although presented as a great success, the operation started almost by accident:

The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, one of the groups formed by Leary and funded by Bill Hitchcock, a millionaire property dealer, in the wake of the prohibition of LSD in the USA in 1965, was disbanded following a police bust. One of the members, Ron Stark, flew to London and met Richard Kemp, a Cambridge chemistry student. Stark provided 7.4 kioos of ergotamine tartrate, a precursor for LSD synthesis, from which Kemp made 1.7 kilos of LSD, using a process known as the “wrinkle” which allowed production of 99.7% pure acid. This was sufficient to make 8.5 million doses of 200µg each.

In 1974, Gerald Thomas, a cannabis smuggler earlier thrown out of the group for unreliability, was arrested in Canada and gave the names of Kemp, Christine Bott, and Henry Todd as being involved with “the biggest acid lab in the world”. Kemp and Bott moved to Wales where they set up a lab in a remote farmhouse, whereas Todd and Andrew Munro, an inorganic chemist, set up shop in a basement in Seymour Road, London producing inferior quality LSD in 100µg black microdots. Kemp”s bad luck started when his Range Rover was involved in a fatal accident, and was impounded by police. By chance, Dick Lee was visiting the area, noticed the owner of the vehicle, and searched in finding a note with reference to hydrazine hydrate, a chemical used in LSD synthesis. From that point on Kemp and the cottage were put under surveillance.

The two labs, operating independently but stated to be part of the same conspiracy, were raided on 26th March 1977. The welsh operation had already shut down, and undercover officers had missed seeing Bott burying the equipment in the garden. Even so, there was little hard evidence when the defendants were arrested, most coming from confessions. The 17 defendants pleaded guilty at Bristol Crown Court and were sentenced to a total of 130years imprisonment, with Kemp and Todd each receiving 13 years. The author, David Solomon (Marijuana Papers) received 10 years for providing raw materials, Munro received 10 years, and Bott 9 years.

Although there were persistent rumours that the group had stashed away several million doses, none reappeared years later following the release of the main protagonists. Following Julie, the price of LSD rose sharply, from around 50p to over £1 per tablet. By this time, LSD had fallen out of fashion, the preferred drug among youth culture in the late 1970s being alcohol. Punks regarded LSD and cannabis as drugs of the unfashionable and wimpish hippies, their preferred drugs being “sulphate” (amphetamine) and Special Brew.

http://www.erowid.org/library/books/operation_julie.shtml

Fair points. On a tangent I’ve read the same two arguments used about the coalition’s claims of chemical weapons in Iraq in that they had a limited shelf life and are hard to keep, also that they were more like to find their way out of the country in case of an invasion than otherwise!

Getting back on topic that book on Operation Julie’s funny, the police caught those labs by accident…