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While working a technical job at KGO TV, Mr. Stanley started manufacturing large quantities of LSD. Bear Research Group reputedly made more than 1.25 million doses between 1965 and 1967, essentially seeding the entire modern psychedelic movement.

His lab was raided in 1966 by Berkeley police, who thought they found methedrine. When the substance turned out to be something else, Mr. Stanley successfully sued the cops for the return of his lab equipment.

He was arrested in 1967 at his secret lab in Orinda but didn't serve time until a 1970 pot bust in Oakland prompted a judge to revoke his bail. Mr. Stanley served two years at Terminal Island near the Los Angeles Harbor.

"I wound up doing time for something I should have been rewarded for," he said in a rare 2007 interview with The Chronicle's Joel Selvin. "What I did was a community service, the way I look at it. I was punished for political reasons. Absolutely meaningless. Was I a criminal? No. I was a good member of society - only my society and the one making the laws are different."

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