With an absent father and alcoholic mother, the young Manson progressed from truancy to delinquency, before graduating to carjacking and armed robbery. It was here that a group of as many as 30 Family members lived together. I mean just completely crazy.’While marijuana sedated the Family members, it was the psychedelic drug LSD that Manson used to cement his control. For it was while his cult members were having acid trips that Manson would insinuate the idea that he was the messiah. Isolated at the ranch and strung out on drugs, the cult members believed him.

Source: Daily Mail September 07, 2018 21:03 UTC