This site does NOT condone drugs of any kind...but taking a trip on LSD,
mellowing
out on grass or other forms of inducing altered states of consciousness were
certainly
a big part of the late '60s and the counter-culture and the Summer of Love
itself. Most
didn't take drugs to particularly get high, but rather to mellow, be social
or get to a
higher plane (something not very true these days!)
Mood-altering permeated the language of The Summer of Love, from
expressions
of "let's go get stoned" to "let me blow your mind" to "speed freaks," and
though
The Byrds' Roger McGuinn swears "Eight Miles High" was about a trip in an
airplane, his Byrds partner David Crosby differs and says it was about getting
high.
Here are links not only to sites about mood-altering during the Summer
of Love,
but also psychedelic art forms, as well as the gurus of "blowing your mind,
Man."
The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic started then and is still going strong to
help
those kids having a bad trip or in trouble on drugs.
Dr. Timothy
Leary
Acid
Test
Marijuana ( NORML )
Haight-Ashbury Free
Clinic Then and
Now
Aldous
Huxley's Gravity of
Light
Alan Watts on
Psychedelics
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