William Leonard Pickard

William Leonard Pickard (born October 21, 1945) is an American writer, researcher and convicted drug trafficker. He is one of two people convicted in the largest lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) manufacturing case in history. In 2000, while moving their LSD laboratory across Kansas, Pickard and Clyde Apperson were pulled over by police while driving a rental truck and a follow car. He was later sentenced to serve two life sentences. The DEA has claimed that Pickard's arrest led to a 95% drop in the availability of LSD in the US in the two years after his arrest.
In 2015, Pickard published a book, "The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments".
On July 27, 2020, Pickard was given from federal prison 20 years into his sentence.
Pickard was born in DeKalb County, Georgia. He attended Harvard University. He also lived in Mill Valley, California.