The biggest LSD manufacturer and distributor in the nations history has had his prison sentence pardoned by President Joe Biden. The largest LSD manufacturing facility ever to be found was in Wamego back in 1999. It was run by Clyde Apperson and William Pickard, and was found in a silo outside of Wamego.
At the time of the seizure of the LSD lab in Kansas, the DEA said it had only ever seized four such facilities, and three of them had ties to Pickard and Apperson. In addition to the Kansas seizure, the pair were connected to labs in Mountainview, California, in 1998 and a lab in Oregon in 1996. The two were charged in 2000 for their role in running the largest LSD lab ever discovered by the drug enforcement agency.
The pair operated the lab in an abandoned atlas nuclear missile silo outside of Wamego. When agents busted the operation, they recovered nearly 91 pounds of LSD, more than 214 pounds of lysergic acid, a precursor to LSD, nearly 52 pounds of ISO-LSD, a byproduct of making LSD and nearly 42 pounds of ergocristine, also a precursor to LSD. Apperson, now 69 years old, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole for two counts of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute LSD.
Biden’s commutation of Apperson’s sentence took effect on December 22nd . Pickard was released in 2020 on compassionate grounds, due to advanced age and medical conditions due to covid.
