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19 March 2026

I love these potted histories from Chronicles of Kykeon

In the annals of American psychedelic history there is one tale that emerges from the dark corner of backstabbing and betrayal. Bob Dylan had it right: “To live outside the law you must be honest.” Billy Hitchcock didn’t get the memo. Dear Reader, here is one story of what can happen when that code is violated.

Billy Hitchcock was a wealthy heir to the Mellon banking fortune and a key financial backer of the 1960s psychedelic counterculture. He grew up in privilege as part of the Hitchcock branch of the influential Mellon family that were the owners of the sprawling Millbrook estate in New York. The estate became a hub for psychedelic experimentation after the Hitchcocks acquired it.

Hitchcock provided the Millbrook property as a safe haven for Timothy Leary and Richard Albert and their growing entourage after their dismissal from Harvard. Billy’s sister Peggy played a central role in inviting Leary’s group. The site hosted LSD sessions, poets like Allen Ginsberg, musicians such as Charles Mingus and Grateful Dead members, and thinkers including Alan Watts. Some say this was the true birthplace of psychedelia in the U.S. If you wanted to find the future in 1963, you went to Millbrook.

It was during this this period that Billy met and began to personally finance LSD production and distribution by the acid chemists Nick Sand and Tim Scully. Hitchcock later underwrote expanded operations in Sausalito, California, backing Scully and Sand as they produced millions of doses of Orange Sunshine LSD.

Those operations were ultimately linked to the tribal network known as the Brotherhood of Eternal Love which facilitated the distribution of the LSD. Hitchcock acted as the financial facilitator and money handler for Scully and Sand’s LSD enterprise. He arranged and managed offshore bank accounts in the Bahamas and Switzerland, moved large sums of cash into those accounts, and used them to pay for precursors, glassware, and other materials needed to manufacture LSD. He effectively laundered the profits and insulated the chemists from direct financial exposure. For a while, it worked as the acid flowed and consciousness expanded. The revolution seemed real.

In 1973, authorities discovered undeclared profits from Hitchcock’s LSD-related activities in Swiss bank accounts, leading to an indictment that threatened him with up to 24 years in prison. Facing this leverage, and exacerbated by issues like unpaid alimony, he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors by providing evidence and agreeing to testify against the very chemists he had supported.

Boxed in by events and facing these tax evasion charges, Hitchcock turned informant testifying against Scully and Sand. ​On November 14, 1973, he took the stand in the federal trial against the triad of Tim Scully, Nick Sand, and Lester Friedman, detailing their LSD manufacturing operations, travels for precursors, and lab in Windsor, California. This secured his immunity, allowing him to walk free. Scully got a prison sentence of 20 years and Sand 15 years. Lester Friedman was acquitted of conspiracy to make drugs but later pleaded guilty to perjury.

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