The Sunshine Makers plot
"Two warriors for peace, a vat of chemicals and an LSD cookbook. What could possibly go wrong?"
This documentary chronicles the rise and fall of Tim Scully and Nicholas Sand. They were unlikely pioneers of psychedelic drugs and the counterculture of the 1960s. They often experimented with LSD and other psychedelics from their early twenties, an experience that users say in the film changed indelibly, positively for some and for others. in a negative sense. A California native, Mr. Scully had studied at Berkeley before coming under the influence of Owsley Stanley, a lawyer who advocated the use of hard drugs. The more articulate Sand, a Brooklyn native, invited friends to his New York estate for wild parties. Sand and Scully soon noticed they were on the same wavelength.