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Jo's avatar

David, I like what you've written, not least because Christine and Richard's LSD changed my life back in Liverpool in 1969. Back in their earliest days they brought it round in a testube rack. They were people of SUCH integrity. The idea was absolutely that this pure chemical could help make the world a better place.

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Elizabeth Elliot's avatar

Zahi was a friend. His partner Yael died this year in Portugal. I knew David Solomon who visited us when I was living with Tim Leary in Switzerland. He asked Brian Barritt & I to distribute some green acid when we were living in Amsterdam but it never materialised. However I came into possession of an amount of untableted powder (of various colours) which I sold by weight!

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David Black's avatar

Thanks Elizabeth. Do you know what became of Zahi? Steve Bentley says:

" Zahi was a key player in the distribution network. At one stage in the investigation Inspector Lee was as excited about this dealer as any other, if not more so. For some reason that excitement waned and Zahi seemed to be a forgotten link. My own thoughts on that? Lee was warned off by the security services either in Britain or overseas."

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Elizabeth Elliot's avatar

I re-met his partner Yael at their daughter's art exhibition at the Horse Hospital in London a few years ago. She told me Zahi had died quite young, many years before. Unfortunately she died herself quite recently & that's all I know. Her page on Facebook is Yael Aviv. You might be able to ascertain some info from that

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Bushy Haired Stranger's avatar

450 Grams of crystal…a sizable anount! …curious if Richard was recycling & recrystallizing his iso-LSD or if he ever got into chromatography….?

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