Hippies & drugs

Of course someone can be a hippie without drugs.

Being a hippie is about being yourself, regardless of what others think. It's about embracing the love and inner-peace that exists, and drugs are by no means a requirement for this.

 

Hippies live! With or without drugs.

 

You don'thave to do drugs to be a hippy.

 

I like some drugs with a side of fries and a large coke please.

 

hippie is a label and with every label theres stereotypes, duh!
the drug thing is a stereotype to the label hippie...

i do get high though, but i digg it

 

I felt really blessed to be a hippie. In the former times that meant dropping acid, dropping out and following the paths revealed. Now I don't know what it means, but I do know that last year when I went to my first fest in many years, I was mighty happy to see young people who seemed to be hippies.

One of my teachers was Stephen Gaskin. I never met him, but he was a teacher nevertheless. I recommend Amazing Dope Tales, available at http://www.stephengaskin.com/more_books.html

 

You can be a hippie and not use drugs, but I think you have to an open mind about them. I don't think you can be against it anyway, but at the same time having a different view on one subject (especially drugs) doesn't exclude you from the culture.

 

as far as drugs are concernd. if the earth gives them, they arnt bad. weed and mushrooms.

 

You don't have to do drugs at all. But, music and drugs, man they kinda go hand n hand (well atleast for me they do).

 

i go to concerts, and take molly and lsd,
i got concerts sober as a duck.
either or i get just as high.
live music is a high of its own.
i could hardly tell the difference at live music on or off drugs.

 

I don't disagree at all, but for me it sounds much more moving/powerful when high, and even more so tripping. Like an unseen energy that travels through everyone and binds them all, for that one second in time.

 

I understand where you're coming from, but consider that the earth also gives us a certain drug in the "Angel of Death" mushroom. The earth is not a kind and caring mother, if you consider her "mother" at all. The earth is more like a beautiful but cold and heartless machine that cares not a fig whether you live or die.

But to the question at hand - which came first, the hippie or the LSD?

It can be reasonably argued that widespread LSD use predated the Haight-Ashbury scene, but it can also be argued that the widespread use of the airplane predated the moon landing. One does not necessarily insure the other, but it certainly expanded the possibilities.

LSD was, in no small part, a catalyst for what happened in San Fran, but there had to be the germ of that movement already implanted in the hippies, or the LSD would have had no door to open.

In short, it's as Kesey said, "You're either on the bus, or your off the bus." You can put any kind of gas in the bus and, while your mileage may vary, you can still get where you're going.