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''''The Brotherhood of Eternal Love''' was an informal spiritual organization of psychedelic drug adventurers (and distributors) that operated from the mid 1960s through the late 1970s. The group was founded in Orange County, California by John Griggs and friends in 1966. While the group had no formal leadership, Griggs, known as 'The Farmer', was regarded by some members as the spiritual center of the group, until his death in the summer of 1969. He was inducted into The High Times Counterculture Hall of Fame in December of 2011. ==Formation== ==Legal prosecution== On August 5, 1972, dozens of group members in California, Oregon and Maui were arrested.<ref name="hight111209"/> Others scattered themselves around the world. ==Later arrests== In 1994, police arrested Russell Harrigan near Lake Tahoe, California. An Orange County judge dismissed the charges against Harrigan because of his exemplary lifestyle.<ref name="hight111209"/> In 1996, Orange Sunshine chemist Nicholas Sand was arrested in British Columbia, still making LSD, for which he spent several years in prison.<ref name="hight111209"/> On September 26, 2009, Brenice Lee Smith, a suspected member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love was arrested in California, after nearly four decades on the lam. The 64-year-old Smith was taken into custody at San Francisco International Airport, after arriving from Nepal.<ref name="hight111209">{{cite news|last=Schou|first=Nick|title="Hippie Mafia" Hash Smuggler Arrested|url=http://hightimes.com/legal/ht_admin/6011|accessdate=22 July 2010|date=Nov 12, 2009}}</ref> He was arrested on two nearly 40-year-old warrants issued in Orange County, related to the sale and possession of drugs.<ref name="AP93009">{{cite news|title=Suspected LSD ring fugitive arrested in California|date=September 30, 2009|agency=THE ASSOCIATED PRESS}}</ref> On November 20, Smith, after serving two months in jail, pleaded guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish. Released the next morning, he immediately got back on a plane, to live with his wife and daughter in Nepal.<ref name="hight120309">{{cite news|last=Schou|first=Nick|title=Case Closed on "Hippie Mafia" Smugglers|url=http://hightimes.com/news/ht_admin/6053|accessdate=22 July 2010|date=Dec 03, 2009}}</ref> ==In popular culture== The Brotherhood is the subject of the upcoming [[documentary]] film ''[[Orange Sunshine]]''. ==References== {{reflist}} * ''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. * ''The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, From Flower Power to Hippie Mafia: The Story of the LSD Counterculture'', Stewart Tendler and David May (1984), ISBN 1904879950. ==External links== * [http://us.macmillan.com/orangesunshine] ''Orange Sunshine: The Brotherhood of Eternal Love and Its Quest to Spread Peace, Love, and Acid to the World'', Nicholas Schou, St. Martin's Press, 2010. * [http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Orange-Sunshine-The-book-by-Nicholas-Schou/366745866648?ref=ts] ''Orange Sunshine'' on Facebook * [http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/brotherhood_of_eternal_love.pdf] The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Stewart Tendler and David May, Granada Publishing Ltd., May 1984. * [http://orangesunshinemovie.com ''Orange Sunshine'' Documentary Film Official Site] * [http://www.ocweekly.com/2007-06-07/features/eternal-sunshine/ OC Weekly article] about the Brotherhood * [http://www.freemarijuanachurch.org/ Free Marijuana Church] * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/tregaron/pages/film.shtml Operation Julie] {{Hippies}} {{DEFAULTSORT:The Brotherhood Of Eternal Love}} [[Category:Hippie movement]] [[Category:Drug rings]] [[fr:The Brotherhood of Eternal Love]] [[ru:Братство Вечной Любви]]'