Hippie

Hippie (or sometimes "hippy") is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The word, "hippie" was coined by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen.

Drugs

Driven by the appeal of the Sixties "drug guru", Harvard professor Timothy Leary, who advocated hallucinogenic drugs as a form of mind expansion, many hippies participated in recreational drug use, particularly marijuana (see cannabis, cannabis (drug), and hashish) and hallucinogens such as LSD (see both psychedelic and psychedelic drug) and psilocybin (see Psychedelic mushroom). Some hippies prize marijuana for its iconoclastic, illicit nature, as well as for its psychopharmaceutical effects. Although some hippies did not use drugs, drug use is a trait ascribed to hippies and given as a reason behind their disaffection for societial rules.

Related Topics:
Guru - Timothy Leary - Recreational drug use - Marijuana - Cannabis - Cannabis (drug) - Hashish - Hallucinogen - LSD - Psychedelic - Psychedelic drug - Psilocybin - Psychedelic mushroom

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Drugs were, and still are, controversially considered a central theme in hippie culture.

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Many people think that hippies did not smoke tobacco cigarettes, and considered tobacco dangerous, but photographs from the time show many hippies smoking cigarettes.

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