where can i find info on how  marijuana effected pop culture in the 1960's?
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Every Beatles Album after 1965.\nEvery Bob Dylan Album ever..\n\n\nSeriously though, that's a hard topic to pin down: It probably Affected pop culture more than will ever be admitted; more people smoked up AND inhaled than will ever admit to doing...\n\nTrying googling "Marijuana and pop culture in the 1960s)\n\n\nAnd WHOSE Pop Culture?\nAmerica's?\nEurope's?\nBritain's?
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1971-74. Time flies.\n\nThe "SP's" (Special Programs) were the "smart" kids....the debs became the preps.....the greasers became hoods......the hippies evolved into the yippies (you had to literally "Steal This Book" to be a member). I don't remember the rest. I was too busy getting high, cutting school, and hanging out with my VERY cool bass-player-in-a-rock-band boyfriend. Where have all the good times gone?\n\nNow I have a daughter who is a sophomore. She talks about the goths, the preps, the jocks, the dreaded cheerleaders (some things never change) and the emo's (now THERE is a strange bunch). The only thing that seems different from when I was in high school is that the guys now wear more eyeliner than some of the girls.
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This is an issue that stems back from the 1960s.\n\nAs you may or may not have known, during the 1960s, America suffered huge cultural and social changes. One of them was the rise of the Hippie Movement and Youthquake, which went against what people at the time-- especially Conservatives-- considered "moral", "traditional", and "upstanding."\n\nBesides the obvious sex, drugs, and rock and roll they indulged in, Hippies also dressed and changed their appearances in ways that offended Conservatives and the Establishment at the time. One of the things they did (the males) was grow out their hair and start growing beards and mustaches at a time when men were expected to be cleanshaven and have the shortest hair possible. As a result, any man who started growing his hair out became associated with the whole Hippie lifestyle and was seen as unfeminine, unAmerican, a derelict, and a subverstive.\n\nWhat you are seeing now is a holdover from those days. Many people still assume that men with long hair are in some kind of subversive lifestyle (drinking, partying, drugging, etc.). Either that, or they're just seen as stoners and slackers. Unfortunate type of prejudice, but it still remains there, nevertheless.
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Resources on the species of marijuana\n\nHope this helps.
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I just finished reading Bouncing Back by Joan Rivers -- the woman had a lot of terrible things happen in her life, but she still was able to meet the next challenge.  I recommend it -- funny, yet motivating.  \n\nHow are you doing in History?  If you are not failing it, you could try Dave Barry Slept Here (if you are failing it, you may mistake his book for a work of fact, and really fail spectacularly!).\n\nHere's the title to chapter 19: "The Sixties: A Nation Gets High and Has Amazing Insights, Many of Which Later On Turn Out to Seem Kind of Stupid." \n\nSorry, the closest thing I can get to a quote is that chapter title.  Cheer up, and Never give up. Never. Never. Never.
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pbs.org has some really good reliable information on the effects of meth on the entire body.  Included are some videos about brain chemistry, dentistry and an interesting series of pictures(mugshots)that visually chronicles teh devastating effects of meth use on a users appearance.
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I'll go out on a limb and say that its influence is how it acts as a gateway drug to other substances. Yes, it would be nice to sugar-coat my answer by saying pot's influence lays with the hippy revolution of the 60's, their music, and art in general, but that wouldn't do enough justice to the people who have suffered at the hands of this incredibly toxic and destructive drug. So, that's my answer. Marijuana can lead to further drug abuse and thus it's influencing the US culture by creating more and more junkies day in and day out. This is happening all over the world by the way. I've based my answer on America however to keep this on topic. Have a nice day.
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http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/02/01_plantremediation.shtm\n\nhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040229233449.html\n\nhttp://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1995/0517/nature.html
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shothunnews.com maybe? i don't know about pre-1981.  Try a library in the south, the more red-neck the better.
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Originally weed was made illegal because it was a threat to the oil companies.  Hemp was such a useful commodity, that Shell oil actually helped in creating propaganda films(such as Reefer Madness) to lump it as part of a hardcore drug culture.  It helped to stop research and use of a natural material that was an actual threat to the oil barons.  Why government doesn't decriminalize it now is years of negative campaigning that is still hard to shake.  Hell, look at Clinton's first appointed surgeon general.  She came out publicly about pot's positive effect medically.  She already was female and black, so you know conservative America wasn't ready to hear that from her, of all people.  She was gone within a year.
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Hippies were a sort of extension of the 'beat generation' aso called Bohemians or beatniks. They were a collective of artists, writers and poets that started a non-conventional, free-er, forward way of thinking and expresssing. Anti-authoritarian and left wing. The beatles growing their hair and getting psychedelic in '68 inspired new styles and ways of expression. The explosion of rock bands in San Francisco and the UK started an incredible phase of popular music that spread the hippie movement quickly. Woodstock, the summer of love. Unfortunately the 70's disco movement and it's cocaine seemed to have swallowed up most of the 60's hippies. They either OD'ed or became lawyers or computer geeks.
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the influence of pop culture on today's society.
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1960s hippies were different from 1950s. So many people were blown away by the events of the times. The lid was blown off of culture, sort of. Kids found that they were able to do whatever they wanted, experiment with anything, and they weren't struck by lightening and chuted straitght to hell. No, hell is a longer and more winding road. Many of those hippies (eg, Abbie Hoffman) ended up on Wall Street after they explored all of the social possibilities of acid.\n\nYouth today owes a lot to those original commune dwellers. My personal pest control guy is an old hippie. He totally understands every bug known to man and can recount stories of living with bugs organically in the commune where he once lived with his girlfriend. He will quickly tell you that the hippies of those days were every bit as jealous, selfish, arrogant, deceitfuil, etc. as the general population. So don't go romanticizing the Woodstock generation. The facts won't support it. All the same, the frickin' lid was ripped off Pandora's Box and we are still trying to figure out the role of parents and children with each other.
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Try this link for some possibles.\n\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=+Blown+film+plants++&btnG=Search
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Oh if you do a search on google for wild west fashion you'll come up with several facts about clothing during that era.  I had to do this because we had a theme party on this.  Can't recall the sites though so you'll have to search yourself.
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go to www.erowid.com. It will help with any questions you have at all about any drug you can think of, and is just pretty cool on top of that.
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You could search Yahoo for:    marijuana smoking statistics  \n\nThe first 5 that I see look pretty good.\n\nPeace!