Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Illustration by BORIS SÉMÉNIAKO On Dec. 21, 1967 — the winter solstice, when the sun’s annual perambulations through the ...

In 2007, writer Robert Greenfield interviewed Berkeley-dropout-turned-acid-cooker Owsley Stanley III – whose pure, potent LSD was favored by Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters and the Grateful Dead – for ...

RICHMOND — For years, longtime residents of Point Richmond, the tiny enclave at the foot of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, had heard the stories about “The King of Acid” who briefly lived in the city ...

Before “Breaking Bad,” back in the good old days of Berkeley, the drug everyone talked about was bubbled and cooked in glass beakers and was called LSD. The best LSD on the market was called Owsley, ...

Way out in the western hills of Sonoma County where no one can hear it, Owsley “Bear” Stanley’s personal speaker system is cranking Doc and Merle Watson’s version of “Tennessee Stud,” recorded by Bear ...

When I showed up at the IJ on Tuesday afternoon to help cover election night, I had a message on my phone from rock writer Robert Greenfield, author of “Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley ...

Owsley "Bear" Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of ...

Owsley “Bear” Stanley will go down in counterculture history as the legendary ’60s acid king who manufactured high-quality LSD for a generation of trippers, but his more lasting legacy may be as a ...

Owsley Stanley was known as the foremost underground LSD chemist of the 1960s. But he was also an exacting pioneer of live concert sound, a man who helped invent both monitor systems and high-fidelity ...