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What a trip. In the San Jacinto
Mountains, a desert ranch where
the LSD advocate Timothy Leary
and his Hippie Mafia once congre-
gated has found a new owner:
YouTube personality and amateur
boxerLogan Paul.
Paul, who last week lost a box-
ing match against British YouTu-
ber KSI at Staples Center, paid a
dollar over $1 million for the 80-
acre property in Mountain Center.
Billed as the only private prop-
erty in Duchess Canyon, the com-
pound has enough structures to
house a small community — and it
once did. About 30 members of the
Hippie Mafia, a.k.a. the Brother-
hood of Eternal Love, led by Leary,
occupied the property in the 1960s,
using it to take and manufacture
LSD, as well as worship nature in
the rugged landscape.
Leary and his wife, Rosemary,
lived in the two-bedroom main
house while the rest occupied
outbuildings and tepees scattered
across the grounds. One of the
group’s members died of an over-
dose in 1969, and three years later,
narcotics agents raided the com-
pound and made seven arrests,
ending the drug-fueled stay.
The ranch house remains the
largest home on the property, and
other structures include a guest-
house, bunkhouse and workshop.
There’s also a barn, two-car garage
and two solar panel systems for
power. A pair of springs feeds a
70,000-gallon water tank.
Timothy McTavish of Pacific
Sotheby’s International Realty
held the listing.
Leary, who died in 1996 at 75,
was a clinical psychologist at
Harvard University when he over-
saw the controversial Concord
Prison Experiment and Marsh
Chapel Experiment, which tested
the effects of psilocybin, a psyche-
delic drug, on prisoners and theol-
ogy students in the early 1960s. He
became a strong proponent of
using mind-altering drugs to treat
behavioral disorders.
Paul, 24, gained a following on
the video-sharing app Vine before
creating a YouTube channel
shortly after in 2013.An LSD guru’s onetime crash pad
By Neal J. Leitereg
and Jack FlemmingPhotographs byKelly PeakPeak Photography
LOGAN PAUL,a YouTube personality, purchased a compound in the San Jacinto Mountains that was once home to Timothy Leary.THE 80-ACREproperty in Mountain Center has a two-bed-
room main house and a guesthouse, bunkhouse and workshop.THE COMPOUNDis billed as the only private property in
Duchess Canyon. Logan Paul paid a dollar over $1 million for it.