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Apr 4, 2013 · An intriguing look inside the hippie movement, the 1960s counterculture that brought peace, drugs, and free love across the United States. A look at the social movement that took America by storm in the 1960s.
- Savannah Cox
Dec 2, 1993 · With increased heroin use, the Haight-Ashbury drug culture became characterized by addiction and theft. A dramatic change in drug treatment occurred at the start of the ‘70s as a direct result of the Vietnam War.
It was the Summer of Love, and Haight-Ashbury served as its epicenter as thousands of countercultural youth gathered there, ostensibly to live out a communal fantasy fueled by flower power, free love, hallucinogenic drugs, and rock music, thereby creating an experimental living village of a lifestyle alternative to the established post-war ...
Jul 6, 2017 · Drawing on utopian traditions which date back to the founding fathers, and fuelled by the euphoric and hallucinatory powers of marijuana and LSD, the summer of 1967 saw an extraordinary culture...
- Nicholas Campion
Oct 9, 2024 · Revolution and a New “Free Love” Generation. With COVID-19 and cities being locked down, the world is at a stand-still. As surveillance increased and the media became fueled by this sense of panic less than 2 years ago, I couldn’t help feeling that there was something familiar about what was going on, nor could I shake this feeling that ...
Jul 31, 2022 · San Francisco’s hippies attempted to establish a new, free-for-all economic system during the 1967 Summer of Love. Here’s the incredible story behind why it flowered and how it withered by summer’s end.
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Jun 22, 2007 · There was a price for all that free love. From 1964 through 1968, the rates of syphilis and gonorrhea in California rose 165 percent, according to published reports. “There was a lot of drug use...
