Owsley Stanley, R. I. P.

Owsley Stanley, Artisan of Acid, Is Dead at 76 - NYTimes.com: "Owsley Stanley, the prodigiously gifted applied chemist to the stars, who made LSD in quantity for the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Ken Kesey and other avatars of the psychedelic ’60s, died on Sunday in a car accident in Australia. He was 76 and lived in the bush near Cairns, in the Australian state of Queensland."

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.