Nicholas Sand was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on May10,1941.
15 Facts About Nicholas Sand
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Nicholas Sand's father, Clarence Hiskey, was a researcher in the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory who attempted to spy for the Soviet Union.
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Nicholas Sand graduated from Erasmus Hall High School in 1959 and then spent a year working on a kibbutz in Israel.
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Nicholas Sand graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in anthropology and sociology in 1966.
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Nicholas Sand became interested in the teachings of George Gurdjieff, the study of different cultures, and various Eastern philosophers.
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Shortly after graduating from college, Nicholas Sand followed Leary and Alpert to Millbrook.
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Nicholas Sand later started Bell Perfume Labs as a front for the production of mescaline and DMT.
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In 1967 Nicholas Sand was introduced to fellow chemist Tim Scully, who trained under Owsley Stanley until Stanley's legal troubles in December 1967.
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In December 1968 Nicholas Sand purchased a secluded farmhouse in Windsor, California, a small town in rural Sonoma County.
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The investigation continued and on December 6,1972, the Orange County, California, Grand Jury returned another indictment, this time aimed primarily against the Brotherhood of Eternal Love's "Orange Sunshine" LSD system; Nicholas Sand was included in that indictment too.
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On March 8,1974, Nicholas Sand was sentenced to 15 years in a federal penitentiary.
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LSD historian Mark McCloud reports that Nicholas Sand then traveled to the ashram of so-called "sex guru" Rajneesh in west India.
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Nicholas Sand eventually returned to North America, again producing large quantities of LSD.
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Nicholas Sand was arrested for drug manufacturing in 1990 in British Columbia, but as he was living under an alias, police did not determine his identity and Nicholas Sand fled while on bail.
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Nicholas Sand died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Lagunitas, California, on April 24,2017, at the age of 75.