We brought Timothy Leary to us to approach famous people like Crosby, Stills and Nash, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane all the San Francisco bands so wed have control of the music. Up to 30,000 people heard Leary make a speech in which coined the slogan Turn on, tune in, drop out. Under his leadership, the Laguna Beach Brotherhood transformed from a religious organization that smuggled hash and marijuana in order to fund their psychedelic spirituality mission into a more straightforward drug operation known to police as the Hippie Mafia. It didn't . He suggested that the wave of LSD use in this country in the ensuing years began inthe Laguna shop. The government had been building a case against Tim Scully's partner in the Windsor lab, Nick Sand, since late 1971. Although he did not know much about lysergic acid diethylamide, Griggs did like the results of his experimentation, according to Lynds testimony. He has published eight articles on the topic of biofeedback and as many on technical computer topics. WITH THE DRUG CULTURE on the rise in the United States, Griggs and the Street Sweepers were turned on to a new scene. Timothy Learys high profile made him an obvious target for Purcell. Acid Brotherhood of Eternal Love Hero Busted The mean little figure arrested by the FBI a few years earlier was now a wealthy man of the world . Oregon and Maui were arrested. According to Michael Randall, a formative member of the Brotherhood, the plan was to drive down the price of LSD through mass production to distribute so much Orange Sunshine that it would become virtually free. She was a teenager from Garden Grove when she met him and fell in love. Many of the Brotherhood favoured settling in Hawaii, while a friend of Padilla flew to the remote Pacific island of Micronesia to scout out territory. We had a deep spiritual commitment to what we were doing. There in the Orange County foothills, they began practicing under a Zen yogi and joined the spiritual search that was sweeping Americas youth. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Decades later, Kirkley heard bits of the Brotherhood story. The other arrests were made at scattered locations in San Diego, Mariposa and Orange counties in California. The Point Richmond lab turned out over 300,000 tablets (270 micrograms each) of LSD they dubbed "White Lightning". To us, the island represented freedom, said Edward Padilla, an early member of the Brotherhood. Deciding that the outlaw bikers were too dangerous to do . John Griggs was the central figure in the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, a group of hippies that sought enlightenment through the use of LSD. Sixteen members of the Brotherhood were arrested along with 37 others in coordinated raids in Hawaii, Oregon, and . October 3, 1973 - US Senate Report on The Brotherhood of Eternal Love The Brotherhood of Eternal Love, aka the "Hippie Mafia," was the largest drug syndicate on the planet during the late 1960s and early 70s-smuggling tons of hashish and marijuana into the country, and producing and distributing millions of doses of LSD.