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In today's hearing, the government
is not dealing with thestandard playground pusher.
These men represent a new form of organized crime,
totally different from our previous notions.
Tim Scully was not partof the psychedelic scene.
He was the psychedelic scene.
TIM SCULLY: I wasn't interestedin personally making money.
I thought that what we were doing
was really important, tryingto change the consciousness
of the world in a positive way.
But we all know who is number one in this case.
It is Nicholas Sand.
NICHOLAS SAND: I was consideredsome kind of mad man,
psychedelic commando.
Because I'd go anywhere, doanything for psychedelics.
We are talking now aboutpeople responsible for producing
millions of doses of hallucinogenic drugs.
And they are proud of it.
NICHOLAS SAND: If could turnon everyone in the world, then
maybe we'd have a new world of peace and love.
Call it whatever you want to call it.
They all ended up in one thing,the degradation of mankind.
The degradation of society.
NICHOLAS SAND: We had the samedesire to risk our freedom,
and be what we thought were American patriots.
Hey, partner.
Good to see you, man.
Too long, eh?
Yeah.
I think we're supposed to go in.
I think so.
Nice Panama hat.
It's getting a little worn around the edges,
just like the rest of us.
Great seeing you, man.
Yeah.
Hey, you look good.
You look great, man.
TIM SCULLY: I didn't know NickSand when I first took acid.
Totally losing that hair.
TIM SCULLY: It was early 1965 and it
wasn't that easy to find yet.
[music playing]
I found A fellow IN San Francisco who had some.
We built a fire in the fire place
and took it in the evening.
NICHOLAS SAND: I was kind of a wild kid.
I'd grown up on the streets of New York.
My first experience withtaking acid changed everything.
I had very good friends who were a couple.
We went up to their lake houseretreat in Mahopac, New York.
As the sun went down wetook our capsules of LSD.
TIM SCULLY: I was nervous whenI first swallowed the acid.
I knew that the experiencecould be very terrifying.
Ordinary things could become very ominous and scary.
But I knew also that it could be transcendent.
And of course I washoping for transcendence.
NICHOLAS SAND: I sat in front of the fire,
nude in the lotus position.
I just wanted to be naked.
I didn't want to be encumbered by clothing.
TIM SCULLY: Everything that I looked at
seemed to have a life of its own.
There's a mantle piece under the fireplace.
The fabric on my pants that I was wearing.
Yeah.
This is it.
NICHOLAS SAND: And then itwent much further than that.
I disappeared.
I was floating in this immense black space.
I said, what am I doing here?
TIM SCULLY: As you get very high on acid,
that's when you get to experience oneness.
You see the whole universe reflected
in all the other people that you look at.
NICHOLAS SAND: If everybody took LSD,
the entire place would change overnight.
People would want to be more loving.
TIM SCULLY: The flash that I had was
that if everybody could share this experience,
they'd be much less likelyto be mean to each other.
To just trash the world by using up resources
and dumping pollutants everywhere.
We'd avoid destroying ourselves with the tools
we've been developing.
NICHOLAS SAND: And suddenlya voice came through my body.
And it said, your job on this planet
is to make psychedelics and turn on the world.
Um.
It was very interesting.
TIM SCULLY: As we werecoming from the acid trip,
the world was completely new and fresh.
Smells of the flowers andlawns were really intense.
I thought, we could make this stuff.
We could make a lot of it and give it away.
We could turn on everyone,everyone who wanted to.
And maybe it would save the world.
ALICE EINHORN: With small groupsof people, you felt connected.
And in fact you were connected.
Sometimes it was just the intensity
of what you were experiencing.
And sometimes it felt spiritual.
It was just extraordinary, andmade you think about the world
differently.
We were always friends andoff and on we were lovers.
He was sure really wonderfulto be with in many ways.
Hey!
NICHOLAS SAND: Hey, [inaudible].
ALICE EINHORN: Hola.
It's so good to see you.
Good to see you.
Today I feel great.
How are you doing?
I'm OK, especially after seeing you.
That's just because I'mremind you of your childhood.
ALICE EINHORN: He was fullof excitement about whatever
his latest project was.
He was certainly like that about psychedelics.
He became a sort of-- he probably would
say a psychedelic warrior.
NICHOLAS SAND: I was on a crusade.
I wanted to turn on the world.
And that was how I first met Billy Hitchcock.
He was a chubby, not really smart guy.
He liked to take LSD.
And he said, you've got to come up to Millbrook.
Come on, I want you to meet Timothy Leary.
DR TIMOTHY LEARY: By teachingpeople how to use their head.
And in order to use your head, you
have to go out of your mind.
[music playing]
NICHOLAS SAND: For the first time
I found a whole communityof people interested
in psychedelic research.
Billy Hitchcock owned the whole probably.
BILLY HITCHCOCK: Dr. Learyleased one of the houses
on the property.
We would have a populationfluctuating between 10 and 20
people working with hallucinogenic drugs,
doing research and experimentation.
NICHOLAS SAND: All kindsof scientists, physicists,
ecologists from all over the world came.
And so it just became likepsychedelic [inaudible].
And so I stayed there for a couple of years.
But I still wanted to know the secrets of how
to produce very fine, pure LSD.
TIM SCULLY: I started makingLSD back in late 1966.
BILLY HITCHCOCK: Tim came over to my house
sometime in the fall of 1967.
He told me that he'd been manufacturing LSD.
TIM SCULLY: Billy's a very charming guy.
He was a patron of thepsychedelic movement, and also
a wealthy man.
That seemed like a pretty good recipe.
BILLY HITCHCOCK: Sand expressedan interest in meeting.
TIM SCULLY: I was introduced to Nick Sand.
He struck me as being ambitious, energetic.
NICHOLAS SAND: I said, Iwould really love it if you
could teach me to make LSD.
Tim and I decided that thebest way to discuss this was
to take an acid trip together.
He took a whacking dose of about 75 mics
and I probably took more.
TIM SCULLY: I told him thatI wanted to turn on the world
and that I thought making 200 kilos of acid
would be about right.
And that ideally we should give it away.
NICHOLAS SAND: You know, Ithought, well that's fine.
You can give yours away for free.
I'm not giving mine away for free.
He's a very, very thriftydistended Scotsman.
TIM SCULLY: His comfort levelwas a lot higher than mine.
NICHOLAS SAND: He's way cheaper than I am.
And then finally I said, OK, come to California.
We'll work together.
[music playing]
NICHOLAS SAND: I was goingto leave for California.
And I had a feeling I needed awoman to balance my energy out.
I used to up to Millbrookfor a number of reasons.
I was kind of a horny guy, andpsychedelic chicks that could
function on my level were rare.
And there were a whole bunch of them up there.
And Jill was there.
[music playing]
JILL HENRY: I stayed up thereworking as Billie Hancock's
governess for his stepchildren.
I was, at that time had movedinto one of the tower rooms.
Nick just appeared in the morning,
popped out of the closet.
And just came and got in bed.
And we turned onto LSD.
NICHOLAS SAND: And shewas very, very beautiful.
I like thin chicks.
JILL HENRY: I was in awe of his energy
and I really wanted to-- Yeah.
I mean, Nicky likes tomake love a lot, you know.
So that is important to him.
But it's almost utilitarian.
We're going to get in trouble here.
NICHOLAS SAND: And I said, you got
to come to Californiawith me because I'm going
to need someone to help me.
JILL HENRY: It wasn't somuch that Nicky was charming.
It was that Nicky knew where he was going.
He had a strong sense of his mission.
Those were the thingsthat made him attractive.
Nick thought that he could change
consciousness of large numbers of people
by making psychedelic drugs.
He thought that that needed to happen.
We all did.
NICHOLAS SAND: And finally,she just decided to go with me.
And we came to the ranch here as partners.
And she still maintainsan interest in the ranch.
Unfortunately I don't.
It was stolen from me by the federal government.
NICHOLAS SAND: Well, I promised you it would be
good coming out to California.
[laughter]
You got stuck here, didn't you, Jill?
NICHOLAS SAND: I'd love forthem to film me crawling
through the attic atMillbrook and discovering you
in your room.
Yeah.
NICHOLAS SAND: Yeah, I was with one very hot
lady before I discovered you.
JILL HENRY: She was so beautiful.
Yeah.
But--
NICHOLAS SAND: Not as beautiful as you.
Not as beautiful as you.
Don't even think twice about it.
ALICE EINHORN: Tim also is very fond of women.
Getting high with him wasreally quite wonderful.
He laid out a deck of tarotcards before the LSD came on.
And then I think we madelove for most of the night.
I'd known Nick by then for 15 years.
And he asked me afterwards, wellwhat did you think about Tim?
And I said, oh, I liked him.
He's very, very odd.
But I really liked him.
He's really bright.
But you're not going to work together are you?
And he said, well.
And I said, good luck with that.
I mean, they just are so different.
Why have all of the booksgot your name on them?
TIM SCULLY: That's to indicatethat it's been cataloged.
Its mysteries and science fiction.
It's alphabetical by author.
JILL HENRY: He's unusual.
Yeah.
He does functiondifferently than most of us
in the way he relates to people.
And he does have a touch of Asperger's.
NICHOLAS SAND: Tim was a very persnickety guy.
Much more uptight than I. He's a Virgo.
He's very skinny.
So we had to set up ground rules.
As long as I didn't transgress on his diet
of white spaghetti, white cheese-- you know,
he liked everything white.
TIM SCULLY: I used to eat spaghetti
with butter and cheese on it for dinner
every night for 30 years.
Until it became medically not possible
for me to eat it anymore.
NICHOLAS SAND: Tim was extremely paranoid.
He thought I was just acrazy psychedelic madman.
TIM SCULLY: Nick made a commitment
to being a lifelong psychedelicoutlaw, changing identity,
being a fugitive from time to time.
In fact, he enjoyed pullingthe wool over people's eyes.
And I got the feeling thathe was often doing it to me.
Did he want to become the king of LSD?
Yes.
I think so.
[music playing]
BILLY HITCHCOCK: I rememberspecifically going to have
a meeting with Sand and Scully.
They were discussing the possibility
of acquiring lysergic acid, thestarting material to make LSD.
I suggested London, Englandas a possible source of supply
for this material.
NICHOLAS SAND: And so we pooledour resources, went to England.
TIM SCULLY: Bought the kilo of lysergic acid,
divvied it up in little plastic bags.
So this looks very much like lysergic acid.
NICHOLAS SAND: One of the things we used to do
is take advantage ofnatural hollows in the body.
So we'd always put it in a place--
like, this was ourfavorite place to put it.
And then this would go like that.
And once the shirt was pulled down over it,
it would be basically invisible.
And I smuggled my half throughthe Bahamas with Alice.
Alice used to smuggle for me all the time.
A great smuggler.
And she's like, la di da.
How are you?
Oh, aren't the birds chirping beautifully?
And she'd like totally distract you.
She's got that kind of sais quoi.
She was perfect.
And then took a speedboat to Miami.
And from there was taken byanother crew to California.
BILLY HITCHCOCK: I wasinvolved in setting up an LSD
lab with Sand and Scully.
Eventually a place was found in November of '68
in Windsor, California.
NICHOLAS SAND: Tim said, here's the deal.
I'll do the first run with my material.
You do the second run with your material.
And we'll be here together for two weeks.
And in two weeks you needto know everything I'm doing
so that you can take over.
[music playing]
NICHOLAS SAND:Eventually I got notified
that it was my turn to come and to meet
at a certain parking lot.
TIM SCULLY: I told Nick tochange vehicles on the way
to the lab.
NICHOLAS SAND: Get one car to drop us off, like
at a medical building and go out the back door
and get a rented car.
A lot of the art of making LSDinvolves not getting busted.
I got to the house in Windsor.
And Jill and I moved in.
TIM SCULLY: The first thing I did
was draw up a flow chart that showed
all of the steps and sequence.
TIM SCULLY: It's been a lotof years since I did this.
TIM SCULLY: LSD islysergic acid diethylamide.
And lysergic acid is the ideal starting material.
You're pretty much guaranteed to get
busted if you try to acquirethe chemicals and do this.
Do don't try this at home.
[music playing]
The first step is to make something
called lithium lysergic.
NICHOLAS SAND: He was a good friend
and he was a good teacher.
And we trusted each other.
And we all go forward onthe shoulders of the people
who went before us.
TIM SCULLY: Meanwhile, we've previously made
something called the re-agent.
[music playing]
JILL HENRY: I was pregnant at the time
and pretty far along actually.
We just kind of did the samething over and over every day
for, I don't know, at least a month.
TIM SCULLY: Generally, working in an acid lab,
you do tend to get high.
So we were in an altered state.
NICHOLAS SAND: You know, sometimes something's
boiling over on the hot plateand you'd grab it and take it
off and you'd go, oh.
Wow.
That's hot.
Oh, no.
I just took 2,000 mics of acid.
[music playing]
TIM SCULLY: Billy was sort of a lab groupie.
He so much wanted to come to the lab
that I let him come and workhere for a couple of days.
BILLY HANCOCK: I worked around the lab.
I ran some reactions myself.
They were manufacturing somewhere between three
and four million tabs.
[music playing]
TIM SCULLY: We were hoping that there
would be a really fundamental change
in the world's consciousness.
That people would become more responsible, able
to use technology more wisely, able to be
gentler with the planet.
NICHOLAS SAND: We'd work until we'd drop
and then we'd sleep for a few hours
and get up and get at it again.
[music playing]
TIM SCULLY: I went to Billy Hitchcock
and asked him whether he had ideas
for a distribution channel.
Because Billy had all kinds of social contacts
all over the psychedelic scene.
And he introduced me to theBrotherhood of Eternal Love,
also known as the Hippie Mafia.
MIKE RANDALL: The mafia rules by fear.
The Brotherhood ruled by love.
LSD made freethinkers out of people.
The grip that allgovernments have on people
was going to probably end.
I know it sounds ridiculously naive.
But if you've ever sat andreally seen the golden light,
and really went deep inside yourself,
it ain't all that far out.
NICHOLAS SAND: They were actually stickup men.
And they all dropped acid.
And they threw their pistols away.
And they said, we're going toform the Brotherhood of Love.
And we'll be working with psychedelics
and we won't be sticking up people anymore.
MIKE RANDALL: Our aimwas to turn the world on.
The business arrangement betweenthe Brotherhood and Nick and
Tim was pretty straightforward.
Here's 100 grams about acid, and there's
more where that came from.
We sold it all.
We had-- I think it was $72,000.
That's a lot of money now, butit was a huge amount of money
then.
And came back up and delivered it to Nick.
That was it.
Now we were the official distributors.
[music playing]
We're the ones that cameup with the name sunshine,
to this day the most famous acid ever.
I took some acid.
Peter, what did the acid look like?
They were these little orange pills.
Were they barrel-shaped?
Uh, yeah.
OK, right.
You did some Orange Sunshine, Peter.
MIKE RANDALL: So we weresmuggling all through America,
all through Europe.
You know, you have to breaksome eggs to make an omelet.
You're going to have to breaksome laws to make a revolution.
NICHOLAS SAND: They dealtmost of the Orange Sunshine.
They did a really good job.
It went all over the world.
MIKE RANDALL: India had lots of it.
Angola and other places.
People that were smugglinghash out of Afghanistan
were bringing acid into Afghanistan.
NICHOLAS SAND: I sent a bunchthrough different soldiers
to turn the soldiers on to ahigher way of looking at things
and not just take orders.
You get really stoned.
Then, you know, like, who cares about the war?
[music playing]
MIKE RANDALL: We thought theworld was going to change
within five years or so.
The grass would be growing in Manhattan.
We were in a fit of idealism.
NICHOLAS SAND: I envisionedcenters all over the world.
There would be trained guides like myself,
taking people through their first trip.
MIKE RANDALL: It was a spiritual thing.
Some people say, I believe in God.
I don't have to believe in God.
I have been one with God.
[music playing]
ALICE EINHORN: It was amazing.
We had a growing sense of community
among equally eccentric people.
It was a lovely time.
TIM SCULLY: There was a psychedelic nation
that was forming.
It seemed as though it was going to work out.
MIKE RANDALL: You know,evangelists have an epiphany
a church.
We're the same, except we were LSD evangelists.
Jesus, that's what he was trying to do.
I think we did a better job than Jesus.
Christians would hate me forsaying that but it's true.
We touched more souls than-- you know,
just because it's a modern world,
and Jesus didn't have no acid.
Did it feel that youwere turning on the world?
NICHOLAS SAND: I reallythought we were on our way.
TIM SCULLY: We guesstimated thatmaybe 3/4 of a billion people
might be willing to take acid,willing to give it a try.
What was that based on?
A guess?
Intuition.
Optimism.
Somebody in Africa who's starving to death
might have relatively little interest
in-- or on the other hand, theymight think it's really cool.
Who knows.
But still, we thought that it would
be a fair shot know thatif 3/4 of a billion doses
would be not too shabby.
750 million doses, which isroughly 200 kilos of pure acid.
The next step might be 20 kilos.
And then that's sort of what we were hoping.
[music playing]
How soon were you hoping to beable to complete your mission.
TIM SCULLY: I suppose I was thinking in terms
of a couple years maybe.
[music playing]
TIM SCULLY: When I finishedmy work in Windsor,
I wanted to learn how to fly.
After I got through the basictraining, I flew up to Napa.
When I got off the airplane,a fellow said to me,
are you Tim Scully?
And I said, yes.
And somebody else grabbed me from behind
and put the handcuffs on.
Stay there.
TIM SCULLY: They said, we're federal agents
and we're arresting you on a fugitive warrant
from Denver, Colorado.
I figured that I was in deep trouble.
[sirens]
Scully was advised ofhis constitutional rights
and transported to the BNDD offices, San Francisco,
California for processing.
TIM SCULLY: I arrived at the federal building,
got taken into the bookingroom where they took
my picture and my fingerprints.
I was told I could get amaximum sentence of 56 years.
I said, oh shit.
GORDON WHITE: Robert T Scully.
Male Caucasian, 23 years ofage, born on August 27, 1944.
Six foot one inches tall, 130 pounds.
Slender build, brown hair, hazel eyes.
GORDON WHITE: I was the group supervisor
for the investigation of the LSD sales
in the San Francisco area.
In 1966 LSD was kiddie dope.
In other words, kids are using this.
The real men are using cocaine and heroin
and those kind of drugs.
I felt it was more dangerous because nobody
knew the outcome of wherethis thing is going to end up.
And it's causing problems to society.
PATRICK CLARK: I wound up as ajunior agent with Gordon White
to fight the hallucinogen traffic.
Most of these young people werethe first of the baby-boomers.
They saw a lot of things in the world
they thought were hypocritical and they
were reacting against them.
And they weren't totally wrong.
I just didn't agree withthe way they were doing it.
GORDON WHITE: Peculiarities-- wears glasses and walks
with an extremely large gait.
Associates-- Donald R. Douglas.
DON DOUGLAS: Tim and I met in kindergarten.
There is no question thatTim is a science genius.
The part of him that you mostly don't see
is the guy who figured the rightplace for an accelerator pedal
is flat on the floor.
And he's the one who, thevery first time we took LSD
together, said, you know,Don, we could make this,
with a real gleam in his eye.
What is LSD?
How does it work?
When did it all begin?
TIM SCULLY: In the late'50s and very early 1960s,
LSD samples went to psychologists
and psychiatrists who weredoing medical research.
It also caught the attention of the CIA,
looking at the possibilityof using LSD in the Cold War.
GORDON WHITE: CIA werelooking at it for one thing.
But the side effects were such that a person that
would be looking for a high, this
would be the kind of sideeffect that they would enjoy.
I just felt so one, so human and alive
again for the first time in years.
And the word started to get around
that there was this reallyinteresting substance.
Magazine articles werepublished and a buzz developed.
I mean, I feel as though Ihave no enemies in the world.
And this is very lovely.
TIM SCULLY: By 1965 the FDA had classified
LSD as an experimental drug.
The sources of supply startedbeing driven underground.
GORDON WHITE: And that'sabout when we started looking
at Owsley and his operation.
PATRICK CLARK: Owsley was the man.
He had a brand name.
LSD was being sold on thestreet as Owsley Acid.
[music playing]
GORDON WHITE: He's the pied piper.
And people would befollowing him around, cause
he's handing out the goodies.
It was pretty easy for us to just get in the line
and see what was going on.
DON DOUGLAS: Tim and I wereinterested in making drugs.
And Owsley learned aboutus, and he visited one day.
OWSLEY STANLEY: So I was looking around
for someone who could help.
And I ran into this kid, Tim Scully.
I thought, hey, I need somebody.
You want to do it?
He was a bright kid.
Real bright.
PATRICK CLARK: We havethree by five index cards.
We'd get a big piece ofpaper and it's all telephone
calls, money transfers.
You're putting together a jigsaw puzzle.
GORDON WHITE: And that'swhere we would put Timothy
Scully and Donald Douglas.
TIM SCULLY: We drove to Owsley's LSD lab.
Becoming his apprentice passedon all the essential knowledge
that I otherwise would havehad to learn the hard way.
DON DOUGLAS: Owsley and Timwould discuss chemistry texts
at the kitchen table.
And I would try to keep up for a little while
but then I'd just go smokea joint and play my guitar.
TIM SCULLY: We'd tabletedup 100,000 does or more
of White Lightening, andput that out on the street.
[music playing]
GORDON WHITE: Haight-Ashburywas an intersection of two
streets in San Francisco.
And if you wanted to dealdrugs, this was the place to be.
PATRICK CLARK: LSD traffickers were not
the same as other drug dealers.
Our basic tool in undercoverwork was to appeal to greed.
And some of them didn't have the greed.
I mean, some of them really were motivated
by things other than money.
You didn't know if he'd show up.
And if he did, he mightwant to talk about karma.
I had heard it makes younot only closer with yourself
but with everybody.
This sort of love, peace type thing.
TIM SCULLY: I was doing itbecause I thought that making
acid could save the world.
PATRICK CLARK: That term, save the world.
I mean, so many of them used it.
[music playing]
PATRICK CLARK: I reacted to those LSD people who
said, you know, how amazingtheir experience had been
the same way I reacted to many heroin dealers
that I met who said thatheroin was better than sex.
I didn't believe it.
GORDON WHITE: I knew it wasgoing to get bigger and bigger
and I felt we had to do what we could
to try to slow this thing down.
You have to take into consideration
the changes that have takenplace in the social order.
The abandon with which theyconduct themselves today.
There is nothing grown upor sophisticated in taking
an LSD trip at all.
They're just being complete fools.
Fear.
TIM SCULLY: Almosteverybody who got turned on
became deeply skeptical of allgovernments and politicians.
DON DOUGLAS: And theauthorities said, oh, we've
got to stop this right away.
People are waking up.
We don't want this to happen.
One reason or another LSDwas given to an elephant once.
DON DOUGLAS: The propaganda machine,
telling people about all the awful things
that would happen cranked up.
And lo and behold it killed the elephant.
Freak-outs.
Instant insanity.
Did any of guys have to take LSD
as part of being undercover?
Take LSD?
Are you crazy?
A Never Neverland of no return.
No, get away.
Get away.
You might be the one guythat trips out on this stuff.
LSD started out a low penalty drug.
But then as people began to learn more and more
about what it did to you, thenit worked its way up the scale.
PATRICK CLARK: The otherside would disagree with that
and say that maybe it wastied to the anti-war movement
or other movements.
But my impression was thatserious people involved
in science and medicine were seeing
it-- LSD, as a bigger problem.
The manufacturer for illicit LSD
should be vigorously sought and prosecuted.
NICHOLAS SAND: I don't carewhat the governments say.
They're all just a crock ofshit, out for power and money.
And that was not my trip.
OWSLEY STANLEY: It was too fucking much.
The law said it's nolonger legal to make LSD.
So we finished it all up.
DON DOUGLAS: One of thethings you need to remember
about the United States isthat it's 50 different states
and they aren't all that united.
It became illegal inCalifornia before other places.
So that's why the Denverlab was not in California.
[music playing]
I
TIM SCULLY: Rented a housenot far from the Denver Zoo.
NICHOLAS SAND: Setting up the lab went well.
Owsley proceeded to come tothe lab and make acid with us.
[music playing]
TIM SCULLY: When that work was done,
Owsley went back to the Bay Area to organize
a tableting facility forthe LSD we'd made in Denver.
So I went back to Berkeley.
I ordered more chemicalsthrough the chemical supply
house Owsley had recommended.
PATRICK CLARK: The chemical supply houses
recognized that some of thechemicals they were selling
were probably going into illegal drugs.
They'd get an order.
They would call us.
Sometimes we would put an undercover agent
behind the desk as a clerk.
TIM SCULLY: There was a new stock clerk
who helped me load the truck.
Aiden Hendrix assumed the role of stock clerk.
At approximately 1:15 PM, Donald R. Douglas
arrived in a van-type truck.
GORDON WHITE: Hendrix wouldpretend to be an employee,
make the people, take theirorder, fill it, give it to them
and tell us, hey, OK, he's got it.
And now he's leaving in a certain kind
of car or whatever.
DON DOUGLAS: He got into a car and followed us,
which an employee of achemical company would not do.
A list of thesechemicals is as follows--
10 cases of chloroform.
100 pounds of sodium chloride.
50 gallons of acetone.
25 pounds of [inaudible].
The drug was followed to the vicinity of Harrison
Street in Stanley Place.
TIM SCULLY: When we went back to my house
we discovered that they'd putmy house under surveillance.
Highball one to Dugout.
This is Dugout.
GORDON WHITE: He livednot too far from a motel.
We could go to it and rent a motel room,
look right out the window.
DON DOUGLAS: We did see that we were being
followed on a regular basis.
And we became a bit thick-skinned about it.
TIM SCULLY: The way I was looking
at it is that we were all playing a game
and we just had chosen different sides.
PATRICK CLARK: I did what I did, which
I thought was the right thing for the country
and for the rule of law.
TIM SCULLY: I thought I was doing something good
and we disagreed.
PATRICK CLARK: Spy versusspy, cops versus robbers.
GORDON WHITE: Surveillance is the key.
And that's the only way we were able to follow
Owsley to [inaudible].
Gordon White, Special Agentwith the Bureau of Narcotics
and Dangerous Drugs.
We had probable cause to believe that there
might be some type of drugmanufacturing going on
in the premises.
We had no response andforcible entry was obtained.
Hey! Don't move.
Don't move. Get over there.
Hey, now.
GORDON WHITE: And in the housewe found Mr. Owsley Stanley.
OWSLEY STANLEY: I said,gee, I'd love to help you
but I just dropped about 200 mics of acid.
I don't think I really wantto go anywhere right now.
Then they carted me off to the joint.
[phone ringing]
TIM SCULLY: I called the lab in Denver.
A strange voice answered, andmy first thought was, oh shit,
the lab has been busted.
I called my lawyer and asked if he could
find out what had happened.
It turned out that thelandlord came to the house.
He smelled a really funny smell.
He thought is there perhapsa dead body in the house?
Sheriff's office.
TIM SCULLY: He called the police.
OK.
Hold on just a second.
TIM SCULLY: A cop came.
The cop decided that hewould break down the door.
As soon as he went inside, he immediately
called the narcotics police.
None of had paid attention to how
the laws changed in Colorado.
So when the Denver lab wasbusted, each of the things
we were doing there had becomea more serious felony, then
in California.
DON DOUGLAS: The heat on uswas really increasing a lot.
I said that I wanted to takea hiatus of about six months,
and go get regular jobs wherefederal agents could see us do
our work until they got tired it and we have
an agreed meeting place.
And at some point we'd dropwhatever it is we're doing,
meet in this place and proceed.
Tim said that he wanted to continue.
So then I said, well then I guess I'm out.
That's how I was out.
TIM SCULLY: I was going tohave to start from scratch.
Owsley made it pretty clearhe wouldn't be financing me.
When I told him, well I didn'treally have enough money
to do it on my own, hesaid, well, how about if you
ask Billy Hitchcock?
And what it came down towas seeing if Nick wanted
to set up a lab in partnership.
NICHOLAS SAND: Theysaid, come to California.
We'll work together.
So we pooled our resources.
I got to the house in Windsor and we
all go forward on the shoulders of the people
who went before us.
PATRICK CLARK: In 1969 we did have intelligence
that Sand and Scully wereworking together on producing
Orange Sunshine, LSD.
I mean, everybody in Haightwas talking about it.
It was the LSD of choice.
We would get reportsfrom all over the country
about Orange Sunshine seizures.
So we knew it was spreading around the country.
Sand and Scully were apparentlyrunning this lab in Windsor.
And they did a good job of keeping it from us.
We conducted surveillances.
We talked to informants.
We did a lot of things.
But we didn't find the lab.
Stay there.
PATRICK CLARK: But sometime after Scully
did get arrested at the Napa County Airport
for a lab in Denver.
TIM SCULLY: I was busted in the spring of '69.
I spent a lot of time commutingto Denver to go to court.
Would you please relate to this court and jury
when and where you first observed him.
I first observed him at 1:24.
TIM SCULLY: And after that, I tended
to have paranoid tripswhere I was hallucinating
police in the trees.
It was very unnerving to think that the police
might be out in the bushes,about to swoop down.
And I was just terrified.
So I got in touch with the Brotherhood folks,
and basically said, you guys have to take over.
I can't do it anymore.
MIKE RANDALL: Tim's timid.
He's not real brave sometimes.
Why do you think hequit when you didn't quit
and Nick didn't quit?
MIKE RANDALL: Because hedidn't take enough of it.
I don't know how much Timtook, but it wasn't much.
You need to keep taking it so that you
really are current with your spiritual feelings.
NICHOLAS SAND: Pretend it was a momentary job
and he did what he did.
And then he was finished.
And to me it was justanother rock on the road.
America's public enemynumber one is drug abuse.
In order to fight and defeat this enemy,
it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive.
Just another asshole trying to direct money
and power where he wanted it.
The depth of our commitment,our national commitment
is clear.
And the pressure is on the criminal drug trade.
[music playing]
Richard Lee Rathjen, SpecialAgent for the Internal Revenue
Service.
I was working very closely withthe Internal Revenue Service.
Dick Rathjen.
[music playing]
A special group was formed within the IRS.
It consisted of about 100 special agents
under the designation of theNarcotics Traffickers Program.
Nicholas Sand was one of theoriginal cases assigned me.
PATRICK CLARK: Nick Sand had a harder edge.
He was a typical high-leveldrug dealer who was
primarily motivated by profit.
I was never out for money.
The only money I ever wanted was enough money
to live comfortably and tomake as many psychedelic
laboratories as I could.
[music playing]
DON DOUGLAS: Dick Rathjenpulled his tax returns.
And from there the investigationjust grew on the tax side.
NICHOLAS SAND: Agent Rathjenwas a very smart man.
And he figured there werea few holes in the stories.
Mr. Sand did not report approximately $300,000
in taxable income.
That's how they got Al Capone, right?
Right.
He also told me he ownedno assets, held no property,
had nothing in anynominee names or anything.
NICHOLAS SAND: Yeah.
Well-- yeah, that was alittle bit of a balls up.
In other words, he was dead broke and lived
off his common law wife.
We opened a criminal tax investigation
on her at this point.
JILL HENRY: This is getting too heavy.
I don't want to do this anymore.
Everything was obviously going to have
to be done on a whole different level--
assumed names, new identities.
By that point I wasalready starting to think
about training as a teacher.
And I loved the ranch and I really
loved the idea of us livinghere and raising children here.
So you think he should of quit?
I thought so.
I thought that there were alot of things that he could do.
He wasn't going to shake this life so
that it would be centered here.
It was going to be centeredaround making psychedelics.
ALICE EINHORN: He began to take himself
so seriously that youcouldn't poke him in the side
and say oh, come on, get off it.
NICHOLAS SAND: I think anybody that has to do this job,
you had to have a big ego.
I did something I feel was really
good for millions of people,and I'm OK with that.
ALICE EINHORN: I love him.
I've loved him my whole life.
But for a while he became--the best word I can think of
is insufferable.
JILL HENRY: We reached a point where I told him,
you need to find somebody else.
And he did.
NICHOLAS SAND: I went off toSt. Louis with a new partner.
I made a beautifullaboratory-- two-story brick
building in downtown St. Louis.
I'd formed this company, SignetResearch and Development.
Everybody was very happy that industry was moving
into this impoverished area and I was
getting kudos from the mayor.
We made a lot of beautiful psychedelics.
And we were right out in the open.
One more job, one more paycheck.
We didn't really accept checks though.
We went through all the bankaccounts for Nicholas Sand
and a number of other accountswe located-- William Hitchcock,
Robert Timothy Scully.
TIM SCULLY: I was very scared.
If Nick kept on cooking, he would
eventually bring down all ofus in a huge conspiracy case.
Billy and I tried to talk himinto taking some time out,
just the way Don Douglas had tried to talk
me into taking time out.
BILLY HITCHCOCK: Nick was totally
irresponsible in the way hewas going about his business.
And he was jeopardizing everyone else who was
involved in the Windsor lab.
TIM SCULLY: Nick responded bysaying that it was that none
of our business what he did.
And after all, hadn't we agreedto try to turn on the world?
PATRICK CLARK: That's prettycommon with a high level
traffickers.
They must have their ownaddiction, because they often
continued a business way beyond what, you know,
prudence would dictate.
PATRICK CLARK: On top of that, I'd
slowly been getting less andless enthusiastic about what
I'd been doing.
Things were looking somewhatdarker in Haight-Ashbury.
That group that was still leftin the Haight-Ashbury started
to seem more like lost soulsThe age of the flower children
was gone.
It was a lot more methamphetamine.
There was a lot more murders and violence.
There was more presence of the Hell's Angels
and other motorcycle groups.
It was a trip.
TIM SCULLY: People that Iknew had peak experiences
and had the experience of oneness,
still treating each otherreally badly and dishonestly.
I still believe that LSD was a good thing.
But I was no longer convincedthat it was the solution
to the world's problems.
But I got turned on to biofeedback instruments.
I'm going to measure the electrical activity
of my brain, as it leaks out onto the scalp.
There were some early studiesdone that related the brain
waves of zen monks yoga mastersto particular brain wave
patterns when they were meditating.
I saw brainwave biofeedback as apossible way of teaching people
to reach that state ofoneness with the universe
without having to use drugs.
So you're still trying to turn the world on?
In a kinder, gentler way.
Yeah.
And then in late 1971 Igot a phone call telling me
I was off the hook for the Denver lab,
because the police hadn'tgotten a search warrant.
The state Supreme Court had ruled
that the search was illegal.
And it was tremendously liberating.
The road ahead was clearfor doing research in lots
of different directions.
Unless Nick didsomething really foolish,
I'd somehow managed to escape getting punished
for what I'd been doing.
NICHOLAS SAND: So here I am in St. Louis.
It's getting very cold in Missouri.
And we decide to go travelingin Mexico and taking a vacation.
Unbeknownst to me, a waterpipe broke in the house.
And the neighbors, they could see
water running down the stairs.
The sheriff for that town breaks in.
They go up to my bedroom.
They find the leak in the bathroom nearby.
They also go into my closet andthey find some psychedelics.
And then they discovered the lab.
Powder LSD capable of producing over
14 million tablets of Orange Sunshine
was found in two locations.
NICHOLAS SAND: It was in all the papers.
I just didn't happen to see the papers.
NICHOLAS SAND: When I pulled up--
Driver, step outside slowly.
Five heavy duty guys withshotguns jumped out and said--
If you make any sudden moves,you'll be shot immediately.
What a country.
Keep your hands away fromyour body and drop full down.
TIM SCULLY: It was an oh, shit moment.
Not that they have busted Nick, I
think I'm in deeper hot water.
I suspected there was a good chance that Nick
would have things with him that would
be used as evidence against me.
Marijuana, LSD, some mescaline.
TIM SCULLY: I made a personalbet that he'd probably still
have that flow chart with him,that showed him the process
for making LSD on one page.
It turned out he did.
Is the gamble of drug exploration worth this?
Is it worth the physical and mental risk as well?
TIM SCULLY: Well a grand jurywas convened specifically
to investigate Nick, Billy, and I.
I eventually hid out in a friend's house.
While I was there, I got aphone call from Billy Hitchcock.
And he told me, I have bad news for you.
Would you say that you were a close
personal friend of Mr. Scully?
Yes I would.
I Advised him of my tax problems.
I told him I was cooperatingwith the government
where I would have toreveal the whole situation.
TIM SCULLY: He'd been indicted for income tax evasion,
and he didn't see any other way out.
PATRICK CLARK: Billy wasn'tthe final piece in the puzzle.
He was that one in the middlethat you'd spend a half an hour
looking for.
And then once you find that one, everything
seems to fall into place.
TIM SCULLY: Owsley and Nick Sand gave Billy
large amounts of money to send offshore
into Swiss bank accounts.
NICHOLAS SAND: He would launder money for us.
Noble he was not.
GORDON WHITE: It's just like fishing.
You reel it in, and youlook at it, and you figure,
I can get a bigger one than this.
So I'll tell him, hey, you know,I'll throw you back, if you
can give me somebody else.
NICHOLAS SAND: My lawyer came and read off
the names of theunindicted co-conspirators.
I said, Lenny, put it plain.
What's an unindicted co-conspirator.
He said, a snitch.
Someone who has turnedstate's evidence against you.
I said, Billy?
PATRICK CLARK: It's justanother example of idealism
fading in the face of reality.
TIM SCULLY: He offered to loanme $10,000, which he encouraged
me to use to hire a lawyer, so that I
could also turn and becomea government witness.
GORDON WHITE: Anybody can be turned.
The question is, how much do you have to give
them in order for them to turn?
NICHOLAS SAND: He said, Timis considering whether or not
to turn state's evidence.
TIM SCULLY: Do the same thing I did and make
a deal with the government.
NICHOLAS SAND: I was shocked, right
down to the soles of my feet.
TIM SCULLY: I said, I'll take the money
and I'll make my best choice.
NICHOLAS SAND: I couldn't believe it.
Remain seated and ourcourt is again in session.
TIM SCULLY: I realized thatif I did become a witness
against Nick, that I would end up
feeling really bad aboutmyself for the rest of my life.
All right.
Ladies and gentlemen, this next case is--
TIM SCULLY: The way I'd end up feeling best
about myself would be if I faced the music
and tried to fight the charges.
Billy ended up testifyingfor a couple of days.
His testimony was pretty damning.
They were manufacturingLSD, somewhere between three
and four million tabs.
Pretty painful to hear.
Scully made just about a million tablets.
TIM SCULLY: They knew whatwe did and where we did it.
Nick came to the Bahamas.
NICHOLAS SAND: There's a wordthat kind of describes Billy.
It's in Yiddish, but it--it is such a perfect word.
He's a schlub.
Yes.
I met with Mike Randall.
MIKE RANDALL: Billy Hitchcock'sa punk and he always was.
He's a rich guy.
Don't try to take a rich guy's money away.
JILL HENRY: I never held that against Billy.
I think most people would save themselves.
The stupid thing was bringinghim to the laboratory.
That he had something to-- you know,
there were a lot of those blunders
all along the line that werejust-- yeah, just showoff
maneuvers that were dumb.
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury--
NICHOLAS SAND: The trial judge, Samuel Conti
is known as Hanging Sam.
PATRICK CLARK: Oh, JudgeConti was a fine American.
He was one of our favorite judges.
Judge Conti was tough.
But I think fair.
The events which are thesubject of this proceeding--
TIM SCULLY: In one ofthe pretrial proceedings,
he said he wished he hadaccess to the death penalty
in our case, which gave us a pretty
good clue of what he was goingto do in terms of sentencing.
And the man was just--
Objection, your honor.
Motion to strike.
Why don't you both approach the bench.
NICHOLAS SAND: Every motionthat we made, Conti just denied,
interrupted our lawyers, yelled at them.
I mean, it's a sick man.
It was blow after blow after blow.
And they had 63 witnessesfor the prosecution.
They spent $1 or $2 million.
I feel pretty proud that itcost them that much to get me.
And I'm just one little guy,you know, with a good idea.
TIM SCULLY: When I got on the stand,
I really wanted to try to explain
why we made psychedelics.
I actually did convince the judge
that there was a chance thatI was an idealist rather
than in it for the money.
But when he sentenced me, he said,
idealists are the most dangerous kind.
And socked it to me with 20 years.
Mr. Scully is a brilliantman, but not very smart.
An idealist without a conscience.
He was impeding justice and impeding
the moral lives and well-beingof many, many citizens.
NICHOLAS SAND: Heroically,he stood up for us,
and really got slammed for it.
He got a 20-year sentence.
I got only a 15-year sentence.
TIM SCULLY: That was a really bad moment.
And I didn't have long in thecourtroom to think about it.
I was whisked away prettyquickly into the holding cell.
PATRICK CLARK: Deep in my heartI have some sympathy for all
the people who went to prison.
I don't really have sympathyon the basis of the chronology.
Maybe he is not doing it anymore and doesn't
intend to do it anymore.
But the fact is, he did it, andhe was an important trafficker.
And an example has to be set for other people
who want to enter the business.
TIM SCULLY: I climbed up on the bunk
and pulled the blanket over my head
and cried for a while cause I thought
it was going to be pretty scary being
in prison for a long time.
I was going to get sent where all
those tough guys were that Ididn't get along with very well
in high school.
It's McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary,
the oldest federal penalfacility in the United States.
TIM SCULLY: I was sent up to NcNeil Island in link
and belly chains and handcuffs.
They put you through a delousing procedure,
take away your clothes and putyou through a special shower,
an medicinal scrub.
When I first drove up I made [inaudible].
TIM SCULLY: There were guys whohad been in motorcycle gangs.
Guys were there for murder.
There was one Eskimo who was there
for eating his whole family.
They were generally a fairly intimidating lot.
I couldn't begin to tellyou how many people in here
have had encounters that they didn't want.
TIM SCULLY: A lot of the guys were frightened
they would be turned into a punk and be
raped by the other prisoners.
It's part of the dehumanization process.
There's only one way to do time, and that's
to do it one day at a time.
That's the only way youcan, and keep your sanity.
TIM SCULLY: I did have alittle difficulty at first
because a number of people triedto make me offers I couldn't
refuse to become the distributor for all
the drugs they expected I was going
to be bringing into the prison.
The answer I gave all of themwas, just wait for my crime
partner to get here.
I don't have any drugs.
NICHOLAS SAND: Usuallycrime partners, as they're
referred to, are kept separate.
For some reason they put us together.
We were bunkies.
He had the top bunk.
I had the bottom bunk.
My girlfriend at the timewould come to the prison.
And she would have a balloon with a variety
of psychedelics in it.
[music playing]
When we got up to be allowedour one hug and kiss,
she put the balloon from her mouth into mine
and I swallowed it.
I had to shit it out,and I had to clean it up,
and then I had to unwrap it.
And then I had to figuresome way of dosing it out.
TIM SCULLY: He startingrunning sessions in the cell.
He would typically do it after lights out.
He'd open the door to hislocker where he had a picture
of Ganesh pasted in the door.
He'd light a candle and he and the other folks
who were getting high would sit around,
shielded from the guard'svision as they walked by.
I mean, he's a great session guide.
NICHOLAS SAND: We formed aneight man psychedelic cell.
Had a mafia guy in it.
He took acid with us,because he wasn't a pussy.
As he came out of that sessionhe said, hey guys, you know,
that's the first time I'vebeen in church in 30 years.
I began to monitor the delivery of food.
Somehow I got some LSD inthere and the word got out.
Everybody would rather take LSD than being
just sitting in jail, right.
We got the whole of the prison stoned.
This is what freedom is really about.
It's not about not being in chains.
It's about not having your mind enslaved.
TIM SCULLY: I just didn't take part in it.
I went to bed and read a bookif the lights were still on.
And when the lights wentout I always went to sleep.
The prison library was in terrible shape.
I offered to update the card catalogs
so it would be accurate.
And the librarian said, OK, you're hired.
NICHOLAS SAND: Tim got up in the morning
as soon as the gates were open.
Boom, stayed there all day.
He was studying the case, tryingto find constitutional issues
that would help get us off.
TIM SCULLY: Judge Conti had set our bail
at a very, very high figure,half a million dollars each.
We filed bail appeals.
So we both got out on appeal bond.
NICHOLAS SAND: And it was a big relief.
Get in your cells!
TIM SCULLY: I saidgoodbye to Nick in prison.
I remember wishing him luck.
NICHOLAS SAND: I couldn't reallyfocus on anything for a while.
It's hard to come back in afteryou've been in that system.
The system changes you and not for the better.
TIM SCULLY: It took a fewmonths for the Supreme Court
to decline to hear my case.
And when I heard we'd lost that appeal,
I wasn't tremendously surprised,but I was really disappointed.
I was doing everything I could to get
ready to go back to prison.
NICHOLAS SAND: I had a littlehouseboat in Sausalito.
I was living there with my Buddha
and all my Persian carpetsthat I liked to collect.
And we were just sitting down preparing
for a psychedelic session thatI was going to be guiding for 12
people from the Bay Area.
As I was finishing up all the preparations,
Nancy came in and said, we'vegot to get you out of here.
I just got a call from Tim.
They have denied your appeal.
And you're going to be picked up in a few days
and taken to prison.
Good to see you, darling.
Yes.
NANCY PINNEY: I met Nick in 1969.
He turned me on to Orange Sunshine.
I think this one might be better.
NANCY PINNEY: And I didn'tleave that room for three days.
And I must say, I fell madlyin love with that person
and what he was.
Yes.
He was different than he is now.
NICHOLAS SAND: What do you mean, was?
What is this negative shit?
He still is.
NANCY PINNEY: I was a part ofthis psychedelic revolution.
He knew that he could count on me to help
him in any way that was needed.
We knew that we had to get out of there.
Ah, here we go.
PATRICK CLARK: When theylowered Nick Sand's bond,
I knew he would run and he did.
NICHOLAS SAND: And I said,watch your rear view mirror.
If you see any cars pullingout behind of us suddenly,
we've got a tail.
NANCY PINNEY: Lo and behold, there
was one of them in my view mirror
and I thought, oh, shoot.
NICHOLAS SAND: I said, OK, we've been made.
PATRICK CLARK: They knew what they were doing.
They weren't easy to follow.
NICHOLAS SAND: I said,drive over to Mill Valley.
And we parked behind a row of cedars.
We would see the same cardriving up, driving back.
PATRICK CLARK: They did their tricks.
We did our tricks.
It came down to a matter ofwho did their tricks better.
NICHOLAS SAND: I had a sense of their timing.
And soon as they passed going to the right,
I said, get out of here.
Go left.
Make your first right.
Make your second left.
Make your second right.
NANCY PINNEY: We just hadto go all those little
residential areas and go shh, shh, shh, shh.
NICHOLAS SAND: Get us over the mountain.
And we got up there.
And I said, wow, we're clean.
We got away.
Now we just have to figureout where to go from here.
TIM SCULLY: I had heard that Nick had vanished.
I told all my friends, ifyou hear from Nick, please
don't tell me where he isor what he's doing because I
really don't want to know.
I didn't want to be part of whatever
the next conspiracy might be.
My mother and my girlfriendat the time drove me up
and I took the ferry across to the prison.
What I told myself was that if all else failed,
I'd figure out how to escapeif I couldn't stand it.
But I thought I'd figureout a way of doing the time.
NANCY PINNEY: Well the plan was to drive
to Oregon and Washington until Nick was
able to walk over into Canada.
He certainly didn't go to sleep.
I think we just drove the whole time.
NICHOLAS SAND: We went up onthe most obscure route you could
say, all the way through theforest for hundreds of miles,
up the Olympic peninsula.
After a few days journey, Igot some halfway decent ID.
Nick Sand was gone.
I went and bought a fishingrod, lures, weights, tackle box.
Now I could make my escape.
Good morning, sir.
Good morning, sir.
NICHOLAS SAND: When I reached Canada,
a little white-haired bouncy immigration
officer said, and what is thepurpose of your visit sir?
I had my pole and my tacklebox and my fishing jacket on.
And I said, come on.
You got to be kidding.
He said, go on.
Have a great time.
PATRICK CLARK: I ran thefugitive investigation on it
for awhile. But we had no leads.
And the man had had numerous names
and traveled all over the world.
We'd hear reports of possible sightings.
But I don't recall that we even came close.
NICHOLAS SAND: So I disappearedand continued my mission.
I lived as a fugitive in Canada.
And I carried on making psychedelics
for the next 20 years.
PATRICK CLARK: If anybody beatthe system it was Nick Sand.
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TIM SCULLY: I was grantedadmission as a PhD candidate
so that I could be a studentwhile I was in prison.
I ended up by getting a PhD in psychology.
I had a lot of help from people on the outside
and got my sentence reduced to 10
years, which made me eligiblefor parole in three and 1/3
years.
I pretty rapidly got absorbedby the whole computer world.
It turned out thathaving made LSD was a LSD
was a positive thing in the computer business.
ALICE EINHORN: Tim and I werelovers for a while in the '60s.
And then me we didn't seeone another for years.
But the more the years wentby, the more mellow he became.
He's like a cat.
You slowly get to know him.
A cat reveals their personalityto you rather slowly.
As we've gotten older, we've figured out,
both of us, what we really want, which
is to be partners and lovers and not
to live under the same roof.
And that's worked wonderfully well.
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TIM SCULLY: I scaled back my ambitions
to trying to just make my own life
and the lives of the people that I care
about be as good as possible.
This is not perfect butI'm doing the best I can.
That's all we can do, you know.
Perhaps at the bottle there are some
of the chemical manuals fromthe different chemical houses.
This back in the corner is the great big steel
reactionary flasks.
It's like a big pressure cooker.
They can cook it under pressure.
PATRICK CLARK: I'd forgotten about him.
It was a huge shock to me themagnitudes of the laboratory.
Practice LSD manufacture.
Drug smuggling, the Forbidden Book.
PATRICK CLARK: That he'd gonethat long without getting
caught, and then when he gotcaught that he was involved
in such an apparently big way.
Psychedelic log.
MDA, DMT.
I don't know if there's muchhe hasn't tried his hand at.
PATRICK CLARK: I knew he was sharp
but I was still surprised.
He knows his stuff, doesn't he?
Yeah.
NICHOLAS SAND: I was eventuallyarrested with enough acid
to dose the whole of Canada two times over.
And they sent me back to stand trial in the US.
By some great coincidence, they got
me back in front of Sam Conti.
They brought him out of retirement
so he could get me again.
I'm a warrior for peace.
I can take it.
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TIM SCULLY: Sure beats workingin the yard at McNeil Island.
NICHOLAS SAND: That's for sure.
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