Denver's Secret LSD Labs

(This 2107 Westword article mention really belongs in a previous Tim Scully thread.)

Lots of interesting historical details and pics. Worth the read -- it gets quite informative in the middle of the story. Stick with it.

https://www.westword.com/news/denvers-underground-lsd-labs-fueled-the-ps...

[Skilled at electronics work, Stanley was offered a job as the Grateful Dead’s sound engineer, which he accepted. Soon after, he and his principal romantic partner, Melissa Cargill, invited Scully to their home to take LSD and meet these Grateful Dead guys. It was a fun acid trip. Stanley brought out acoustic ceiling tiles and had everyone paint bright paisley patterns on the tiles that he could glue overhead to create a psychedelic ceiling. “It was a nice and relaxing way to get to know the bandmembers,” Scully says. He was especially drawn to the friendliness of Jerry Garcia.

“And so I agreed to go on the road with Owsley and the Grateful Dead,” Scully continues. “I looked at it as an extended job interview for what I really wanted to do: work in [Stanley’s] LSD lab.”]

Another crime-scene photo from the Denver lab in 1968, which shows a Grateful Dead concert poster taped to the wall. -Courtesy of Jim Laurita