The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
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The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was an organization of psychedelic drug users and distributors that operated from the mid 1960s through the late 1970s in Orange County, California; they were dubbed the "Hippie Mafia".[1] They produced and distributed drugs in hopes of starting a psychedelic revolution in the United States.[2]
The organization was started by John Griggs as a commune (and got Timothy Leary to come out to their ranch in Idyllwild-Pine Cove, California) but by 1969 had turned to the manufacture of LSD and the import of hashish. Their activities came to an end on August 5, 1972, when in a drug raid dozens of group members in California, Oregon and Maui were arrested, though all of them were released within months; some who had escaped the raid continued underground or fled abroad.[2] More members were arrested in 1994 and 1996, and the last of them in 2009;[1] he served two months in jail after pleading guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish.[3] A documentary (called "Orange Sunshine" for the LSD they produced) on the organization premiered in 2007,[2] and in 2010 Nicholas Schou published a book on the brotherhood.[4]
References
- ^ a b Schou, Nick (Nov 12, 2009). ""Hippie Mafia" Hash Smuggler Arrested". http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6011. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ a b c Schou, Nick (7 June 2007). "Eternal Sunshine". OC Weekly. http://www.ocweekly.com/2007-06-07/features/eternal-sunshine/. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
- ^ Schou, Nick (Dec 03, 2009). "Case Closed on "Hippie Mafia" Smugglers". http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/6053. Retrieved 22 July 2010.
- ^ Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World, Nicholas Schou (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2010), ISBN 9780312551834.
External links
- The Brotherhood of Eternal Love by Stewart Tendler and David May (1984)
- Orange Sunshine Documentary Film Official Site
