The Brotherhood of Eternal Love

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The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was an organization of drug users and distributors that operated from the mid-1960s through the late 1970s in Orange County, California.[1] They were dubbed the Hippie Mafia by the police.[2] They produced and distributed drugs in hopes of starting a "psychedelic revolution" in the United States.[3][4]

History

The organization was started by John Griggs as a commune,[5][6] but by 1969, had turned to the manufacture of LSD and the importing of hashish.[7][8][9] Appearing in 1968 as an orange tablet measuring about 6 mm across, "Orange Sunshine" acid was the first largely available form of LSD after its possession was made illegal. Tim Scully, a prominent chemist, made some of these tablets, but said that most "Sunshine" in the USA came by way of Ronald Stark, who imported approximately thirty-five million doses from Europe.[10]

In 1970 The Brotherhood of Eternal Love hired the radical left organization Weather Underground for a fee of $25,000 to help Timothy Leary make his way to Algeria after he escaped from prison, while serving a ten-year sentence for possession of marijuana.[11][12]Template:Better source needed[13][14][15]

Their activities came to an end on August 5, 1972, when a drug raid was executed on the group where dozens of group members in California, Oregon and Maui were arrested.[16] Some who had escaped the raid continued underground or fled abroad.[3] More members were arrested in 1994 and 1996, and the last of them in 2009;[1] Brenice Lee Smith served two months in jail before pleading guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish, and then was released after being sentenced to time served.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

Film

Books

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First released in 1984. "wider perspective on the history of LSD, ...extending the Brotherhood's story past the point where Schou stops it. Tendler and May also claim a closer relationship between the group and the Mellon heir Billy Hitchcock and the international smuggler (and suspected government provocateur) Ronald Stark[10] "[35]
" Schou keeps closer to the original Orange County gang, telling the story largely from their perspective."[35]
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See also

References

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External links

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