William Leonard Pickard

William Leonard Pickard is a former drug policy fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a research associate in neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and deputy director of the Drug Policy Analysis Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Alleged by United States federal agencies to have produced ‘90% of the world’s LSD,’ in 2000, Pickard was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute,
and served 20 years of two life sentences, during which time he wrote this book. Presently, he is a senior advisor for the biotechnology investment firm JLS Fund and the Fireside Project.