The Sunshine Makers: LSD Warriors for Peace

Orange Sunshine: LSD Pioneers quest to bring peace to the world.

“Your job on this planet is to make psychedelics and turn on the world.”

That’s what Nicholas Sand, who has died aged 75, claimed to have been told by a mysterious voice during his first LSD trip.

The self-taught chemist began making the drug at age 20, in a lab he had built in his mother’s attic in New York, inews UK writes.

His father was a Communist, his mother a sometimes Communist. Demand for his LSD soared. Although his motives were altruistic, law enforcement did not buy into his formula for world peace. He was on the lam for two decades before he was apprehended in Canada. He served six years.

The Sunshine Makers reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness- raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufactured a massive amount of acid, including the gold standard for quality LSD, Orange Sunshine, as they tried to stay one step ahead of the feds.

Not Necessarily Stoned but Beautiful Facebook takes a deeper dive:

RIP Nicholas Sand… Along with Tim Scully, Nick Sand was responsible for producing over 3 million hits of Orange Sunshine, a brand of LSD that was renowned for its quality and purity in the Sixties.Sand has a particular fondness for DMT.

He was the first underground chemist to synthesize DMT rather than extracting it from natural sources, and the first person to discover that the DMT freebase could be smoked. Graduating in 1966 with a degree in Anthropology and Sociology, Sand began synthesizing DMT in his bathtu

Nick Sand and David L. Mantell were arrested on April 1, 1967 when their truck failed to stop at the Dinosaur, Colorado Port of Entry. The truck was eventually searched and federal agents reportedly found 313,000 doses of LSD and a laboratory-on-wheels.In 1967 Sand was introduced to fellow chemist Tim Scully, who trained under Owsley Stanley until Stanley’s legal troubles in December 1967.

In December 1968 Sand purchased a farmhouse in Windsor, California, where he and Scully set up a large LSD lab and produced over 3.6 million tablets of LSD that was distributed under the name “orange sunshine.”

“We must never forget, no matter how much disinformation is spread, that these substances are inert, innocent materials. It is we who interact with them and confer the variety of qualities that we attribute to them.”– Nick Sand