A British multi-millionaire chemist behind controversial businesses that sold ‘legal’ LSD-based hallucinogens ‘for research’ could be facing up to life in prison in a high-security US prison after being accused of a conspiracy to import banned class A drugs into the country.
Alexander Stratford, 35, is battling extradition to the US after he was arrested by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers and brought before Westminster Magistrates’ Court.
At a brief hearing last Thursday, the court heard he was detained on an international arrest warrant relating to three alleged offences between August 2016 and December 2024.
The document states that he ‘conspired with others
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