At seventy-two, Friedland speaks with the meandering cadence of an old hippie, which his biography suggests that he is. In the 1970s, he left Bowdoin College after he and two others were caught with 24,000 tablets of LSD in what was then, according to the New York Times, the “largest ever” seizure of the drug in New England. Later, he ran an apple orchard where Steve Jobs took psychedelics (the experience helped inspire the name “Apple”).
