The Brotherhood of Eternal Love

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". They produced and distributed drugs in hopes of starting a psychedelic revolution in the United States.

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.

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.

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. More members were arrested in 1994 and 1996, and the last of them in 2009; he served two months in jail after pleading guilty to a single charge of smuggling hashish. A documentary (called "Orange Sunshine" for the LSD they produced) on the organization premiered in 2007, and in 2010 Nicholas Schou published a book on the brotherhood.