In an era when bootleg and contraband pharmaceuticals of dubious potency and ingredients are hawked on American streets and threaten the very lives of their users, there was one man whose very name was synonymous with purity. No filler or disagreeable poisons in his products! "This," your host or vendor would say proudly, "is the REAL owsley!"
"If a man bakes a better loaf of bread, or manufactures a better plow or horseshoe, the world," it is said, "will beat a path to his door." And so, even in the shadowy anonymous world of illegal substances, individual reputation and brand trumped the uncertainties and dangers of the marketplace.
One of those universal geniuses, he did much more with his life, which you can read about at http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-owsley-stanley-20110315,0,3733346.story
R.I.P. Owsley Stanley, who, if he didn't do it legally, at least did it well and with respect for his customers.
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