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San Francisco 'LSD Guru' Faces 20 Years In Jail 
Posted by FoM on January 22, 1999 at 22:12:53 PT

SAN FRANCISCO A San Francisco judge closed the book on a psychedelic drug maker once known as the city's "LSD guru" who was captured in Canada after spending close to 20 years underground as a fugitive.
In a move one attorney said marked a last hurrah for San Francisco's once-famous "Flower Children", Judge Samuel Conti on Friday sentenced Nicholas Sand, 57, to an additional five years in prison for jumping a $50,000 bail in 1976.Conti had sentenced Sand to 15 years in prison in 1974 for manufacturing LSD and evading taxes. But Sand remained free on appeal, and in 1976 fled to the Vancouver area."This was a last hurrah for the Flower Children," Sand's attorney, Patrick Hallinan, said after hearing his client's total sentence rise to 20 years. "It wasn't fair but it was foreseeable."Sand had links to leaders in the Hippie movement in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as to the late psychedelic guru Timothy Leary and the Hells Angels motorcycle gang.After fleeing the United States, he went underground. But Sands was arrested in Canada on Sept. 26, 1996, when police raided a drug lab in Port Coquitlam, outside Vancouver, that was producing a number of drugs, including LSD, Ecstasy and Nexus. The lab contained enough raw materials to make 45 million hits of LSD, police said.He was extradited to the United States last May to serve out his original sentence. In October, Conti found Sand guilty of the additional crime of skipping bail.Albert Boro, another Sand attorney, said his client remained as committed to LSD and other drugs as he was in the 1960s, when the "Flower Children" crowded San Francisco with their message of free love and drug experimentation."He does believe in the therapeutic effects of (LSD), and the religious aspects of it, the spiritual aspects," Boro said. "He is really a true believer in the psychedelic movement, and has always been."LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide, was developed in the 1940s and originally used to mimic psychosis for research purposes. Later, such writers as Allen Ginsberg and Alan Watts popularized LSD for its hallucinogenic qualities.
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Comment #2 posted by Kurt Shotko on January 25, 1999 at 06:08:46 PT:
Entheogens [Sacred Drugs]
Our drug policy makes no sense. We systematically addict children to tobacco and alcohol using cartoon characters, while filling jails with non-violent drug criminals. We have to attack the hypocrites with reason. Some drugs are religous in nature and need to be defended as such.Please contact all legislators about a ban on tobacco and alcohol and tobacco advertising. people who allow these corporate drug dealers to prey on children are criminals.All drugs should be sold in government stores. Private citizens should not be allowed to sell drugs, but we have the right to have them. Use the money to fund the school system.
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Comment #1 posted by Dr. Ganj on January 23, 1999 at 16:41:43 PT
LSD- our problem child
What a sad ending for such a heroic man. MDMA & LSD are so incredible. If only more people knew the truth.The only thing Nicholas Sand is guilty of, is being too far ahead of his time. We'll reflect upon these restrictive times in the future, and shake our heads in utter disbelief. How could we have made these terrible mistakes? Keep the dream alive, I say. Tune in, turn on, drop out.          Dr. Ganj
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