Relationship of Drugs And music Musicians use their music to express thoughts and feelings they have. These thoughts and feelings they have are reached by their fans and most fans usually listen to what they have to say. A common thing that many artist do is to promot...

Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, and LSD: Alice's Connection to the 1960's The late sixties were a time filled with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. A huge part of American culture at the time was focused around these three things. Musicians possessed a tremendous amount of social influe...

Aviv Grill The Sixties From Recreation To Revolution "Don't worry, be happy." This phrase for the most part summed up the philosophy of the hippie culture. People were to love each other, and there was happiness and bliss. The hippie philosophy, though, didn't just cre...

FLOWER CHILDREN AGAINST WAR: THE HIPPY MOVEMENT Peace, Love and Freedom In the 1960s USA a new movement appeared among young people. They rejected mainstream society and social habits, believed in the power of love, wore unusual clothes, had long hair, took both legal and illegal drugs and e...

Film has been categorized by genres since it became popular in the early 1900's. Even within these categories (comedy, romance, action) genres often overlapped one another. George Melies' 1902 classic A Trip to the Moon is a timeless piece that mixes science fiction with psychedelic aspects far be...

The 1960s were the age of "sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll." People had a new outlook to life. Women began wearing shorts, skirts, and clothing they normally did not wear. Almost anything was permissive. There was a full-scale sexual revolution. Decriminalization of homosexuality was prev...

Over and over I ask the question, "Do you believe in rock n' roll? Can music save your soul?" (Don McLean "American Pie") to people I don't even know; of course they think I'm crazy, but let them, they don't know me. My life as part of the counterculture...

Hippies: Not Just a Style "Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world (Lee)." The words of this famous song "Imagine" were sung by John Lennon, a member of the Beatle's an...

PDH Drug research 1) Albert Hofmann first created the odourless, colourless and tasteless Hallucinogen, Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in 1938; from a fungus, ergot that grows on grains, such as rye. He hoped that it would stimulate blood circulation but his tests proved that it did not achiev...