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Better Living Through ChemistryYou don't know Nick, but you may be familiar with his work."I mean we were criminals, but we were criminals having fun, people who got together and decided yeah we are doing a job, we are turning on the world. But we never hurt anyone. We never made bad drugs." - Nicholas Sand: Chemist, Visionary, Felon Beginning in New York and Berkeley in the early 1960s, chemists Nick Sand and Tim Scully created the finest black market LSD ever sold. They continued to do so even after making LSD became a felony in 1966. In 1970, after four years of living underground and facing serious criminal charges, Tim Scully got out of chemical manufacture. A former child science prodigy, Scully began a new career building biofeedback technology and working in computer design. He earned his PhD during his four years in prison. Nick Sand was on a mission: he continued making chemicals for the black market until 1996, when the RCMP finally caught up with him in Vancouver. Sand also served four years in prison; in Canada and in the United States. Judge Samuel Conti, who had convicted him to fifteen years in 1974, was brought out of retirement to convict Sand a second time. Sand and Scully are our guides to the counter culture, the chemist's craft, and the long-term effects of psychedelics. This film will feature additional filmic treasures such as home movies made at the Long Reach Ranch, RCMP crime scene video, and candid shots of Sand and Scully working in the lab.
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