The Role of Taking Psychedelic Drugs in the Counterculture of the Hippies

Abstract

If we were to meet a hippie, what would we see? The then governor of California Ronald Reagan said: a hippie is someone who “dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane and smells like Cheetah”, though that is far from reality. (Lytle, 215) True, hippies did not look like an average person of the 1960s; they wore tribal clothes, beads, badges, feathers, all kinds of accessories, they had long hair, or wore nothing at all. Hippies were free from the oppressive conventions society forces on us and that freedom did not manifest itself only in their looks. Hippies were fundamentally different from mainstream culture in their ideas and attitudes so soon enough they found themselves to be dropping out of society and managing an utterly distinctive lifestyle... (Introduction)