2,400 tabs of LSD and Approximately 9 Pounds of Processed Cannabis Located During Hydesville Stop, Says HCSO
This is a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office. The information has not been proven in a court of law and any individuals described should be presumed innocent until proven guilty:
On February 2, 2023, at about 12:30 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies on patrol in the Hydesville area conducted a traffic stop for a vehicle code violation.
The driver of the vehicle, 26-year-old John Joseph Roche, was found to be on active probation. During a search of Roche and his vehicle pursuant to the terms of his probation, deputies located approximately 2,400 tabs of LSD and approximately 9 pounds of processed cannabis.
Roche was arrested and booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of possession of a controlled substance for sales (HS 11387), transportation of a controlled substance (HS 11379(a)), possession of over 28.5 grams of cannabis (HS 11357(B)(2)) and violation of probation (PC 1203.2(a)).
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John Joseph Roche Booking Photo | Humboldt County Correctional Facility
2,400 tabs of LSD, approximately 9 pounds of processed cannabis, and a large sum of cash located during search.
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What a long strange trip it’s been…
Might have just been starting out Eastbound!
I wonder if there were any roaches in Mr. Roche’s ashtray?
Roche?
I thought it was Sandoz…
I can’t believe this product actually still exists, and making it is a Federal Crime, so, gutsy attempt, no profit…
Overlooked is the role LSD played in the science of genetics.
Francis Crick, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, who was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 70 years ago.
And Nobel prize recipient Kari Mullis was blazing when he developed the Polymerase Chain Reaction process while driving home in Mendocino.
That is an interesting assertion.
Read the works of Alexander Shulgin lately?
Both Crick and Mullis may have spent a few minutes in education and thinking about their subject, prior to doing whatever drug they chose…
IMO, Psychedelics can be fun, but once or 4 times is probably enough…
Drugs are almost never the answer, but life is short.
I had to look Shulgin up, I look forward to learning more.
Back in the Nixon era, Dick commissioned the Consumers Union
to research and recommend on drug use in the U.S. The C.U.
began with coffee and ended with Heroin.
The chapter on psychedelics is an eye-opener. The gist of the C.U.’s book was if we were to criminalize drugs based on harm, alcohol would be #1. The C.U. recommended decriminalization
for marijuana and psychedelics.
Nixon shelved their research and began the drug war for political reasons. 50 years on now and we still have prisons overflowing reflecting unnecessary and costly cruelty to citizens.
LSD is certainly one of those drugs that should not be illegal However there has been some pretty bad un-pure stuff that has gotten people in a bad way.
It should be available with assurances of purity and perhaps with a prescription. Given it is the most potent drug ever it needs to be clean.
it doesn’t in it’s original form, some bathtub mix i’d bet. remember osley?
You mean Owsley “Bear” Stanley? He was the dealer; his wife was the chemist.
correct-“i got sunshine, in my stomach, like i just rocked my baby to sleep”
LOL, I was gonna say what a long strange trip it would be!
That dudes trippin…
Back in the day being in possession of acid was a big deal, a buddy spent a long time in prison for just 30 strips I wonder what kind of time he might get if found guilty
Sick thing is the L he will get hammered for and dip shits walk on fentanol…makes zero sense. Mind expansive drugs
And where’s the other sheets. That ain’t 2400
They’re probably secured the the evidence room. Great job by the HCSO deputies…
those are pages. looks like more than 2400 to me
They are usually 30×30, so 900 per sheet(from what ive heard,) with one missing some. 2400 is probably right, I’m sure they counted haha.
These appear to be 15 by 15.
From his picture it looks like he ate the rest.
Nah looks like he has pink eye in one of his peepers. Or hes a one eyed crier. Had a girlfriend who was a one eyed crier. She spoke out of the side of her mouth too Odd chick
Each one of those 15 squares contains 4 hits in a square. The same art is for sale on the internet as 30×30.
4 way sheets doesn’t mean anything when it comes to dose. it is likely that each 4 way is still 125 or 250 max. meaning each one is one dose that can be split into 4 if desired.
Maybe the dead print is extra heady and double laid!?! At least he didn’t castrate himself!!!
https://www.times-standard.com/2010/05/13/arcata-police-report-rash-of-bad-lsd-trips/amp/
Oh, for sure. Dosage can vary no doubt, but I’m sure the police counted each perforated tab as a dose, which is what I was referring to.
LSD seems innocent nowadays compared to fentanyl. Which it is.
Oh bro…. Brutal. However I think the officers may have exaggerating a bit.. As far as I can tell in the picture, unless there are multiple pages underneath each one of those papers. Those sheets are 15×15, and there are 3 of them. So that comes to 225 hits per sheet, and 3 sheets means 675 hits. One of them is even missing a few rows. How the hell are they getting 2400?
Maybe the guy counting took a tab to test it.
30 x 30 =900
900 + 900 +700 = 2400
Looks like he already sold 300.
Heh, oops. 600
So you are saying they are two hits per square?
The front side and the back.
Oh yeah- make sure to eat both sides when you take them…to get the full effect lol!
4 perforated hits per square
I’ve mentioned this before. The rest are secured in the HCSO evidence locker.
By “evidence locker” you mean the officers personal backpacks and the trunks of their cars right?
I’m sure dude hey was like, just 2.4
Pretty low level crime compared to hard drugs we so often see. They’re testing LSD for mental health treatment
They did that some 50 years ago in Montreal at the Royal Victoria Hospital courtesy of the US government. It wasn’t good,
50 years ago? sounds like they were testing it in mental asylums not for depression or ptsd.
LSD was tested on people with depression and other conditions over 50 years ago and wasn’t successful. There was no diagnosis for PTSD 50 years ago, although it certainly existed.
The founder of AA credits lsd with curing his alcoholism.
NO, it didn’t cure his alcoholism, but Bill W. did use it under MD supervision for his depression.
Thanks for the correction I appreciate it.
Your welcome, “Keep Comin Back, it works if you work it.”
While Bill did experiment and find beneficial uses for psychedelics, he certainly never “credited LSD with curing his alcoholism”
Actually it was showing some success with recidivism rates but that study was shut down w/ all the others when the decision was made to ban all research and declare LSD illegal. It’s beneficial for many but definitely not for everybody…Albert Hoffman himself was worried about people with latent schizophrenia getting triggered by it and suggested psychological screening before administering LSD.
It was unsuccessful because they were clinical trials. Ever been to medical offices? They’re quite depressing.
In Canada Drs. Hoffer and Osmond successfully treated alcoholics in the mid sixties. Life long alkies saw the light and never drank again. Look it up.
Almost 43 years ago, I had some green pyramids with my brother and some of his fraternity brothers at USC, then walked over to the LA Sports Arena to watch Pink Floyd perform “The Wall.” Easily the greatest concert I have seen!
Awesome, you saw LA when it was great.
You are not wrong about that. It’s downright mild in comparison to most busts.
Lol…Humboldt county is the test results
Is that what lsd looks like these days? Man I’m getting old.
Well at least it wasn’t meth. He’s a day tripper for sure LOL!
That’s not no where near 2,400 hits of Lucy. Those are bigger than sheets but no where near 2,400 hits 🤣🤣🤣
this made me laugh and laugh
thx so much~
Word. That is a best comment for sure. And I’m still baffled and kind of perplexed.
This guys a festival waiting to happen
Let him go
Compared to Pfizer he’s a saint
100%! At least he’s not running like a sheep to take 4 shots of the Jim Jones jab!
Back in the day there were a number of different delivery mediums. That looks like what we called “blotter” acid. Then there was gelatin waffle aka “window pane” and the tablets “orange sunshine” and “purple barrel” etc. The blotter tended to be mellower. The stronger stuff was a real ride. Had to hold on. Could be harrowing. When a plate of spaghetti started squirming you knew it was coming on. Some folks never made it all the way back.
Window pane was my favorite medium…
This explains so much…
My only time trying DMT in a bong had me Praising the Almighty, when I tried to move my thumb and it worked.
Talk about getting to be the leader of the band, on that Unbroken Chain.
“Some folks never came back!” That why the government needs to refigure some shut out, but not.
LSD needs to be monitored wisely for a good time. Case point.
On a cold an weiry night, a freak in the ride, lurked, boasted, tourmented, ” I got puddle, guick. The fear, I succumbed and a puddle appeared in my palm.
Confused, trying to calculate. I panicked and put my tongue in, as confusion excelerate, rubbed fore head.
Calculating my ” never coming back,” being tormented by freak. A friend demanded, as his face began to melt. “YOU HAVE TO COME HOME.”
Good idea, instead of a Rock Med , just hoping, not in them days, east toast.
Got turned on the, The electric kool-aid acid tests. After, first side, I laughed and said, I wanted more. They agreed until I said ACID.
Laughing they said, ease up boy wonder. How about you try and flip the album.
Obviously, a bad joke but great album, yes I know it is a series. But that album saved my life, confirmed in a thing called Family, and point being Cops need to crank the Acid Test during a crisis, and see if it makes the perps relax.
Uck, maybe paint the cell tye dye, bong hits for Jerry Hour.
Ps views here, are based on coffee, tobacco, and cheap street weed.
Pray until you can pray for your enemies, and actually remember a little Love.
I would always look at my palm. When it started swirling, it was off to the races
Probably on his way to the grammar school, need to get those 1-2 graders blasted out of their gourd so they can watch the drag queens perform for them.
I knew about the sick disgusting experimental mandates… but this is new.
Yes- it is a secret government program to turn redneck’s kids into drag queens through psychedelics. This guy is a CIA undercover. Tomorrow he will be free and this article will disappear. Nobody will remember this happened except a few and everybody will think they are crazy. 10 years from now drag queens will take over rural ‘merica and we won’t know why….
Global environmental destruction, law enforcement civil rights abuses, income inequality, Russia’s war on Ukraine,, 1 in 10 American children without sufficient food to eat, drought.
Remember the pendulum swings both ways over time…Have a bong load or two.
Hey that’s far out, man!
I’m voting John Joseph Roche for sheriff !!
All 2,400 tabs of LSD and 9 pounds of Cannabis were claimed as personal use by Mr.Roche. I actually would buy that story on this one.
Hes going to be bummed when he finds out hes not in a cartoon
Are those 30×30?? and he is probably getting more time than the fentanyl guys. Bad government policy at work as usual.
Bill W had an experience that allowed him to view alcohol as a poison. Read his biography. One tab at a time. Wasnt that his saying???
Give it a decade and they will be selling hits with pictures of the Shulgins, Deva Pravasi and Leonard on the packaging.
Love the blottter art.
The Flying Eyeball rides on!
Uh dude, that’s not the look for “flying under the radar”.
I’ve noticed two things lately that ‘everyone agrees on’ on the comment sections. 1) the wildberries incident was justified. 2) This kid shouldn’t be in too much trouble. Guns and meth are bad, acid and weed
Sometimes I have hope for this country.
Who remembers “Susan Confusion” 😁
gawl, let him go
I think I would have left the weed behind if i was transporting that much trip.
I’d have made sure my lights and plates were good. I’d have completed the mission and had a tale to tell about it all.