Counterculture The Hippie Life Style
From the early 1960’s and the early 1970’s a group of Americans joined together to create was known as the counterculture. The counterculture was an alternative society based of peace, love, and individual freedom. ... k12) The hippie movement started in San Francisco, California and spread across the United States, through Canada, and into parts of Europe (Zappa). ... By the mid 1960’s, Haight-Ashbury had become the hippie capital because of the availability of hallucinogenic drugs, which the State of California didn’t outlaw until late 1966 (Danzer). Hippies turned their backs on conventional home life, living in communes-group living arrangements. ... One of the basic foundations of the Hippie movement was the flagrant use of illegal drugs. ... LSD (acid) was also another drug of the hippie population. ... During the 1960’s, the hippie movement embraced rock ‘ n ‘roll.