William Leonard Pickard is to be released from jail! After serving over 20 years in prison after the infamous Kansas Missile Silo LSD bust.
Leonard is the author of the much celebrated novel The Rose of Paracelsus: On Secrets and Sacraments. He was also one of the first people to raise the alarm of the Fentanyl epidemic, and in fact continued this work while in jail.
I would like to pay tribute to all those who have supported Leonard and is family through through these difficult times. In fact I’ve just got off the phone to Ben Sessa who wrote a wonderful letter, again one of many, in support of Leonard’s application for early (sic) release.
Leonard, now 74 years of age, was originally sentenced to two sentences of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. However following changes in US law, pertaining to individuals incarcerated as a result…