American organization of drug users and distributors
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
Founded by
John Griggs[1][2]
Founding location
Orange County, California, United States
Criminal activities
Drug use, manufacturing and distribution
The Brotherhood of Eternal Love was an organization of drug users and distributors that operated from the mid-1960s through the late 1970s in Orange County, California.[3] They were dubbed the Hippie Mafia by the police.[4] They produced and distributed drugs in hopes of starting a "psychedelic revolution" in the United States.[5][6]
^Schou, Nick (July 7, 2005). "Lords of Acid". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^R.U. Sirius (19 October 2018). "Tripulations 1968 - 1969: Excerpt from Timothy Leary's Trip Thru Time". Mondo 2000. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 3 July 2021. In 1966, a notorious working class gang of tough marijuana dealers from Orange County invaded and ripped off a Hollywood party over a pot deal gone bad. Among the items they grabbed was a bunch of LSD. They didn't even know what it was — except that it was obviously a drug. One day, the gang leader, John Griggs tried it. "This is it!" he told his followers. "A religious experience." He threw his gun into the ocean. In nearly an instant, the Street Sweepers gang became a religious psychedelic commune. And the skills they'd learned smuggling marijuana from Mexico… well, that still fit the profile. They added acid and hashish to their sales repertoire and became such a successful underground operation that they would eventually get dubbed "the hippie mafia."
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^Ramm, Benjamin. "The LSD cult that transformed America". BBC Popular culture. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021. The drug had a similarly profound effect on the petty criminals who would become the Brotherhood, two-thirds of whom had already had run-ins with the law. Their founder, John Griggs, was high on heroin when he robbed a Hollywood producer at gunpoint – but after taking LSD for the first time, he renounced violence, apologised and returned the stolen goods....Brotherhood members, christened the 'Hippie Mafia' by the police, used multiple identities to evade detection, but remained socially and politically influential....The group's celebrity also inspired one of the strangest films ever made, Rainbow Bridge (1972)...Owsley Stanley, who made LSD into tablet form for the acid tests of writer Ken Kesey, described the Brotherhood as "loose cannons on a ship of fools". Richard Alpert, who renamed himself Ram Dass ('servant of God') after meeting his guru in India, was wary of the group's ambition: "They were rebellious and wanted to use psychedelics to challenge the government. They had the tiger by the tail".
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^Black, Bobby (30 October 2020). "Hashish, Hawaii & The Hippie Mafia". Cannthropology - World of Cannabis. Velleman Beheer B.V. Archived from the original on 9 July 2021. Retrieved 2 July 2021. Part of a local hotrod gang called the Street Sweepers, "Farmer John" Griggs was a notorious boozer, brawler, and heroin user. But after robbing a stash of LSD from the home of a Hollywood producer, he tripped out for the first time and had a spiritual epiphany. Overwhelmed by his experience of "God-consciousness," Griggs returned the stolen acid, gave up his gangbanger ways, and devoted himself to proselytizing on behalf of LSD. He began taking small groups out into the woods every Sunday and leading them on guided trips. Travis had also experienced "death of the ego" moments while tripping before, but it wasn't until he accompanied Griggs on these excursions that he began to find meaning in the experience. Believing that LSD was the ultimate tool for human enlightenment, Griggs—along with his wife Carol, friends Michael Randall, Ricky and Ron Bevans, Chuck Mundell, Travis, and a number of others—made it their sacred mission to turn on the world.
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