Breaking Bad and The Good Life.But in the mid-70s, a tranquil backwater of west Wales was the unlikely setting for one of the biggest LSD operations the world has ever seen.To the locals, the couple who masterminded it probably just seemed like another pair of newcomers who had arrived from across the border in search of country living.
They grew vegetables and bred goats - even showing the animals to a standard that made them the talk of the agricultural show circuit.However, scientist Richard Kemp and his GP girlfriend Christine Bott were in fact helping to manufacture and ship massive quantities of the mind-bending drug from a lab they'd set up in the basement of a remote mansion in the quiet village of Carno.
Millions of doses - an estimated 60 per cent of the world's supply at one point- were being produced and shipped internationally, and all under the radar of police who were blissfully unaware that the so-called "biggest acid lab on the planet" was right there on their patch.And, at the heart of it was LSD's very own 'arch druid', the notorious Timothy Leary - the American psychologist whose name became as synonymous with the drug as it did with the hippy-coined counter-culture catch-phrase, "Turn on.
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