1970 was a turning point.
That was the year the hippies I knew gave up using LSD and started growing their own pot - and experimenting with selective breading. That was the year most hippies disappeared and the streets were overrun with freaks.
The breading is the best part.
I prefer the panko-crusted pot myself.
;-)
By 1969 I knew that the hippie thing was over, few freepers will understand but hippies were not the yippies (political activists), or the kids that were getting stoned and stealing tape decks from cars, and they were not people that left their college dorms for the weekend to visit the hippies that had truly dropped out from the system, hippies weren’t the people that went on to get PHDs and Law degrees and run America’s institution like Hollywood likes to portray.
By 1970 almost all the pure drugs were gone and parts of urban and suburban America was immersed in a dopers world of crummy street drugs and crummy dopers but 1965 through 1968 was a very unique window of where we had a few people that did live the life of hippies, by 1970 and 1971 many hippies had and were still escaping to rural areas to escape the harshness of what their previous haunts had become. Mother Earth News was launched in 1970 and any conservative today can look at it’s early years and approve of it’s back to the land, self sufficiency message of building things and hunting and which shotguns to buy.