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>> narrator: michael lesher has spent half of his life behind bars and is now facing three counts of burglary with aggravation and force. he has just turned down a plea deal for 25 years in order to go to trial. if found guilty, he could get life in prison. if he's set free, he'll have a different set of challenges. >> i don't know what's in the free world. i don't know how to pay bills, i don't know how to pay rent. i don't know how to do a w 2 form. it is what it is. another person just balled up and thrown away like a piece of trash. >> while lesher awaits his fate in bear county, he's look...

♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> narrator: michael lesher has spent half of his life behind bars and is now facing three counts of burglary with aggravation and force. he has just turned down a plea deal for 25 years in order to go to trial. if found guilty, he could get life in prison. if he's set free, he'll have a different set of challenges. >> i don't know what's in the free world. i don't know how to pay bills, i don't know how to pay rent. i don't know how to do a w 2 form. it is what it is. another person just balled up and thrown away like a piece of trash. >> while lesher awaits his fate in bear c...

We could put in pepople's hands things that they wouldn't be able to get otherwise. it was turning into a real business. >> though the company's product, the illegal drug lsd, carlson says the chemicals he was selling weren't yet scheduled or banned yet in the united states. he set up shop in this office building and even registered with the secretary of state and went to work. >> i was an employee of my own company getting a w 2. we had full pay roll services. it was as legitimate as it could be. we knew we were walking a very fine line as far as the law was concerned but at the time we thoug...

>> i was an employee of my own company getting a w 2. we have full payroll services. it was as legitimate as it could be. we knew we were walking a very fine line as far as the law was concerned but at the same time, we thought we were on the right side of it. >> without so much of leaving his computer, carlton said he and his two colleagues were repackaging chemicals they bought in bulk to filling 30 to 40 orders a day. >> it is fairly easy to find chemical suppliers. the product sells itself. generally as much of it as you can get, you can get rid of it pretty quickly. >> reporter: motion re...

Them in small quantities. >> reporter: carlton had an idea to turn synthetic hallucinogens into a business. those like him, interested in experimenting with synthetic highs. his web site called motion research would be for drug enthusists. >> we could put things in people's hands they couldn't get otherwise but it was turning into a real business, at least make a go of it. >> reporter: though the company's product mimicked the drug, lsd, they weren't yet scheduled or banned in the united states. he set up shop in this office building, even registered with the secretary of state and went to wor...