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'{{Infobox Criminal organization | name =The Brotherhood of Eternal Love | image = | caption = | founded on = | founding location = | founded by = | years active = | territory = | ethnic makeup = | membership est = | criminal activities = Drug use, manufacturing and distribution | allies = | rivals = }} '''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".<ref name="hight111209"/> They produced and distributed drugs in hopes of starting a psychedelic revolution in the United States.<ref name="schou"/> 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 [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] and the import of [[hashish]]. In 1970 The Brotherhood of Eternal Love hired the terrorist organization [[Weather Underground]] for a fee of $25,000 to help LSD activist Timothy Leary make his way to Algeria after he escaped from prison, where he was serving a 5-year sentence for possession of marijuana.<ref>{{cite video |people= [[Brian Flanagan]] |year= 2002 |title= [[The Weather Underground]] |url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV7GSff4fIA |format= mp4 |publisher= The Free History Project |location= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |accessdate= March 2, 2012 |time= 0:59:00}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen |author= [[Mark Rudd|Rudd, Mark]] |year= 2009 |publisher= [[William Morrow and Company]] |location= New York City |isbn= 978-0061472756 |pages= 225-7 |url= |accessdate=}}</ref> 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.<ref name="schou">{{cite news|url=http://www.ocweekly.com/2007-06-07/features/eternal-sunshine/|title=Eternal Sunshine|last=Schou|first=Nick|date=7 June 2007|work=[[OC Weekly]]|accessdate=27 January 2012}}</ref> More members were arrested in 1994 and 1996, and the last of them in 2009;<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 served two months in jail after pleading guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish.<ref>{{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> A documentary (called "Orange Sunshine" for the LSD they produced) on the organization premiered in 2007,<ref name="schou"/> and in 2010 Nicholas Schou published a book on the brotherhood.<ref>''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.</ref> ==References==THEY DID NOT MANUFACTURE LSD, BUT THEY BOUGHT LARGE QUANITY FROM SANDOZ CORP OF ENGLAND AND FROM T LEARY WHO HAD TWO COOKS FROM HARVARD MAKING IT AFTER OSLEY GOT BUSTED. THEY ONLY SOLD CANNABIS AND ACID/MUSHROOM AS THIS WAS NOT A SIN, THEY WERE WITHOUT SIN. THEY NEVER HURT ANYONE, TOOK ADVANTAGE OR DID DISHONEST DEALINGS. IF THEY WERE A MEMBER, YOU COULD TRUST THEM WITH ALL.<ref>I AM A CONVICTED KINGPIN AND HAVE DEALT WITH A MEMBER</ref> ==External links== * [http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/brotherhood_of_eternal_love.pdf ''The Brotherhood of Eternal Love''] by Stewart Tendler and David May (1984) * [http://orangesunshinemovie.com ''Orange Sunshine'' Documentary Film Official Site] {{DEFAULTSORT:The Brotherhood Of Eternal Love}} [[Category:Drug rings]] [[Category:1960s establishments in the United States]] [[Category:1970s disestablishments]] [[Category:Organizations based in California]] [[Category:Drug cartels in the United States]] [[de:The Brotherhood of Eternal Love]] [[fr:The Brotherhood of Eternal Love]] [[ru:Братство Вечной Любви]]'