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.Or, while at Bellevue, didStark receive his first LSD as part of a course of treatment? The story about the squalor ofhis New York apartment is interesting when compared with Sand's early career in similarcircumstances.Perhaps Stark tried to make his own LSD, and the squalor was either a coveror the result.Exactly when he moved into large-scale production abroad, or why, is not known; butseveral sources independent of each other report a production run in Rome at the timewhen he suddenly became wealthy.By the late 1960s, Stark had again moved, to France,embellishing his operations with legitimate chemical companies as a front.He wasestablished in the thirteenth arrondissement of Paris with two other Americans, working atnight after the regular staff had gone.78 The mean little figure arrested by the FBI a few years earlier was now a wealthy man of theworld, boasting a fleet of expensive cars and a pleasant home at the better end ofGreenwich Village.He may have worn a jellaba for the Brothers, but he was equallycomfortable in expensive suits, developing a taste for fine food, particularly caviar.Adabbler in legitimate and illegitimate businesses, he had command of many languages.Gregarious and charming when it suited him, he seemed fascinated by the antics of theyoung.On the streets during the Paris riots in May 1969 he bumped into a fellow Americanexpatriate.The casual meeting was to have great importance.The two got talking aboutdrugs and the other American, a student at Cambridge, England, mentioned that a drugsexpert and writer had settled in the university town.Stark tucked the name away for futurereference.David Solomon was a man, like others, who went back to Millbrook days andbeyond.It was through David Solomon that Stark met the brilliant English chemist hementioned to the Brothers.But these were different people from the Brothers, developing invery different circumstances.Their story began in the late 1960s, when the Brothers weregrowing in strength and Owsley was already an established figure.David Solomon left the United States with his family in 1966 as a rising authority on drugs.The man who first took mescaline as a magazine assignment after reading Huxley's booksturned from jazz criticism to a series of works in which he pulled together and edited theviews of artists, philosophers and experimenters on drugs.The books on LSD and marijuanaadded, for their readers at least, a gloss of respectability to the growing drug culture.Manyof them might well grow out of the culture eventually, but Solomon did not.In his earlyforties he did not shrug aside the faith he had acquired.The psychedelics to which he hadbeen introduced in the first fervent period of lay interest, becoming part of an LSD pipelinein the IFIF days were a natural part of an unconventional philosophy he already accepted.From the United States the Solomon family moved to Majorca where their friends includedthe poet Robert Graves.But they did not stay long.Arrested by the police for drugpossession, Solomon left the island without paying the court fine.In late 1967, he moved toBritain and settled in Cambridge.The youth revolt in Britain lagged some years behind the United States and never had aclear focal point like the Vietnam War or Civil Rights.While the use of drugs was wellestablished by the mid-1960s in the United States, it was still developing in Britain, wherelaws were tighter.There was no British equivalent of Leary in a society which was morestable than the American and where ideas moved much more slowly.The proscription ofLSD did not produce any group like the Brothers or campaigning movements; the nearestBritain got was a lobby to legitimize marijuana.Solomon found himself at Cambridge in aworld eager to learn, and he was happy to become its psychedelic missionary
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