“Let me tell you about the first trip.”
I still remember those words, and that exact moment in 2008 when Travis Ashbrook, a founding member of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love––a group of acid evangelists who ran one of the largest drug cartels of the 1960s and 1970s––agreed to tell me his story. After months of detective work, I was finally prying open a secret, stranger-than-fiction chapter of American history.