Hippies
... (Connikie 56). Then both men and woman wore synthetic fibers such as plastic and rubber. This new type of clothing was brightened up with patterns and flower designs. These clothes complemented the music of their day (Powe-Temperley 25). They also used body paints with designs such as flowers and peace signs. These body paintings were used for self-expression. The wilder the design the “groovier” (Powe-Temperley 26). Now today we have a large variety of clothing but we still see bell-bottoms worn by women, which were very popular in the sixties. A lot of guys today who follow the hippie’s drug habits tend to grow their hair longer then most other people. Also we have people who are obsessed with nature and its beauty. Most of these people are know as “tree huggers”. “Tree hugging” was common for every day hippie life. Finally, body paints used to express themselves back then are now today’s tattoos. All over the world tattoos are used to express love, anger, hate, you name it, it’s out there. So hippies clothing, body art, and nature loving introduced bell bottoms, tattoos, and “tree huggers” on our world today. In the later 1960’s a new drug was presented to the public. This new drug allowed a person to open their mind to a totally new world. This drug is known as Marijuana or some slang terms such as pot, weed, hemp, and bud. But it wasn’t just marijuana that opened the minds of the hippies, there later came a drug known as LSD. This drug was perfect for all those thrill seeking hippies. Back then expert chemists would set up underground laboratories making the strongest most potent LSD (Clarke 59). They kept their prices down and gave out a lot of free samples making it open to everybody. In other words it was very cheap and extremely easy to get. Today things are a little different but the drugs we have today were still influenced by the hippies. Marijuana is the most common drug in schools. It enables people to get in touch with their more creative side. Young teens and even adults still smoke marijuana today but, it is much harder to get a hold of and much more expensive. Also police officers today are much more strict about marijuana laws then they were forty some years ago. Now, LSD is known as acid. This drug is still used today but not as much as marijuana. Acid is very hard to get a hold of but much less expensive per hit than marijuana. If hippies weren’t such thrill seekers and weren’t so daring there probably wouldn’t be as much drugs on the streets in America today. After the spread of drugs in the sixties there became a new attitude against sex. Premarital sex became part of everyday life. This was because they had recently come up with a birth control pill. Because of this pill women felt much more safe and began to allow sex more openly and widely. The birth...