Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know
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Drugs and the Counterculture
It's about experimentation. This is still a phrase that we use now, particularly politicians who experimented with drugs when they're at university. It has an almost evangelical nature to it, particularly in 64, 65 in America when Timothy Leary is advocating the use of hallucinogenic drugs. If you're rebelling against tradition, then you want new experiences. You want new ways of seeing things. What about drugs? What influence do the wider availability of recreational drugs have on the movement? It shapes it entirely. I mentioned Alder Sucksley earlier in the 1950s who was consciously using masculine to see what it did to his brain,. how it affected his perceptions of the world. That is
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