Hippies In The 1960

In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, drug use became a major concern for most Americans. As the War on Drugs and “Just Say No” campaign were being thrust into the spotlight by the government and media, the public became more aware of the scope of drug use and abuse in this country. The federal and states’ governments quickly responded by creating and implementing more harsh and punitive punishments for drug offenses. Most of these laws have either remained unchanged or become stricter in the years since then.

Illicit drug use is a major problem in Australian culture as a recent study in 2012 by the United Nations has concluded that Australia has the highest rate of recreational drug users in the world (Toohey,2012). An Illicit drug can be defined as “the non-medical use of a variety of drugs which include: amphetamine- type stimulants, cannabis, cocaine, heroin and other opioids, and MDMA (ecstasy) (Hall W, Ross J, Lynskey M, Law M, Degenhardt L.,2000). Australian Governments on all levels including non-governments have been trying to fight this illicit drug problem

Marwick believes that drugs are now a prevalent issue in every society because drug abuse first started becoming apparent in the 1960s (Marwick 496). LSD was used as the “personal key to cosmic consciousness and universal unity” while marijuana was used to “cement the circle of friendly love” (Mawrick 482). The use of drugs was very common within the hippie population. At Woodstock it was especially prevalent because of Acid Test gatherings that introduced LSD to the community. These Acid Tests were a “harbinger for the making of a counterculture”

Drug possessions arrests have always been abundant in the fight to end the drug trade in the United States. According to FBI data gathered by DrugWar Facts.org , "of the 1,561,231 arrests for drug law violations in 2014, 83.1% (1,297,384) were for possession of a controlled substance [and of that 83.1% , 39.7% was for Marijuana, 21.5% for non narcotic drugs and 17% for Heroin and/or Cocaine.] Only 16.9% (263,848) were for the sale or manufacturing of a drug [in the United States]."(Drug War Facts) The number of arrests have been constant for the past four years an shows the amount of effort going into drug possession arrests. Due to this alarming number of arrests per year for possession of a controlled substance, society tends to look down on people who use the

1. The author of the article might have simply overlooked this movement in his work. One of the points for missing this aspect is based on the idea that the countercultures have only been represented as small groups and their activities can be disregarded. However, it is essentially important to consider even the influence of the minorities while such influences might have led to immense changes in the world-views of the people. At the same time, the drug movement has not had such an immense impact on the flow of the political processes to be included in the article. While the article deals with the political aspect of the history, the drug movement influenced the social and cultural aspects more. The political impact of this movement was not

The 1960s brought about enormous change, popular trends, and in some cases great success. This decade has been remarked as the “transition” era. ("The 1960s: Fashion: Overview.") Pop culture is the popular opinion on things by “ordinary people”. Popular culture can easily affect a society as seen in the 1960s. The 1960s brought about change in fashion and some societal “norms.” These fashion changes include, straighter dresses, bolder styles, and bell bottom jeans. ("1960s: Fashion.”)

According to the United Nations , 158.8 million people around the world use Marijuana which is 3.8 of the earth's population (Marijuana Statistics ). Marijuana's impact on users has changed over the years. Back in the 1960s, the potency of marijuana was nowhere near what it is today. Along with that, if users are caught, it affects those convicted more negatively. Additionally, marijuana today is being chemically altered leading to dangerous side effects for users. Therefore, Drugs are worse for teenagers today than in the 1960s due to the prescription pill epidemic,Ease of using drugs in school, and the effects drugs can have on a user's future today.

Although hippies began rebelling and opposing the perfect society in the 1960s to the 1970s, their ideas have mostly influenced today’s society. Therefore, the society followed the way of life as naturally. They turned to take the basic clothes in daily life. Presently, people still take the same concept includes long hair, flowers and beads, and colorful clothing. When the thought of freedom spread out of the community, the drug use and sexuality have become popular in society. The “recreational drugs” are essentially used in the community, partly by college students, by expressing their feeling of happiness and to relax. It is still the famous activity for college student today, and increases more and more. Additionally, today’s society also accepts sexuality, people are not necessary to keep the relationship anymore. Homosexual and bisexual are members in our society. There is also the same-sex marriage to show that this group will not be banned after. Exactly, civil rights are more accepted from the impact of hippies too. In American society, black and white have the equality in nationality and race. This significantly leads to the equal society. The combination of fashion, sexuality and drug use in American society is the normal society that we can see in today’s society. Belief and culture are probably transferred from one generation to another generation. It is similar to the chain that closely

Love not war. Peaceful protesting against the Vietnam War. Tie dye and vegetarian diets. Living life to the fullest and changing your lifestyle to help the environment. Hippies in the 1960s made a very big impact on the government and society.

Since the early 1960’s there have been an alarming increase in drug use in the United States in 1962, four million Americans had tried an illegal drug. By 1999, that number had risen to a staggering 88.7 million, according to the 1999 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse.

Pre 2008 Legal Highs were the crux of the New Zealand party scene. Legal highs like Party Pills and Synthetic cannabis have since been reclassified as class C drugs and have been pulled off the shelves of all retailers in New Zealand. Since the psychoactive substances act 2013 there has always been the looming suspicion that the drugs will make their way back onto the shelves, by bending their way around the law or in the underground scene. The 2013 psychoactive substances act states the new legal high drugs must have “limited regulation in the form of licensing and pre-release human experimentation to test substance effects”- proving that they are safe or unsafe. Prior to this legal highs were posed as an experimental way to try cull the sale of illicit drugs; but after such drugs as BZP showed their harmful effects, this had to be restricted. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoactive_Substances_Act_2013)

Currently drug abuse is the issue that has plagued almost all the societies in the world. This problem poses serious threat to the life of people both in developed and underdeveloped countries. There are different kinds of drugs such as heroin, cocaine, cannabis, hallucinogens, ecstasy, and methamphetamine and so on (McGeorge & Aitken, 1997). Young and age-old people largely use many of these drugs. People usually consider these drugs as a relief from their worries, but these drugs lead them towards addition and psychotic disorders that eventually destroy their health. Legislative authorities in almost every part of the world have been trying to save their generations from the abuse, but the use of these drugs never ended. However, these legislations help to minimize the numbers of drug users where their implementation is done properly (Hall et al., 2004). The aim of this research paper is to provide knowledge about the Cannabis Legalization in Australia and the people’s approach who favor or oppose this legalization. Cannabis drug use, impacts, cannabis legalization in Australia and its advantages and disadvantages will also

While the use of drug statistics was a mainstay theme within the articles, age-breakdown statistics were not prominent in the discourse until the later years. Articles within the declining-use period (2001-2004) hardly describe age-specific data. Such data only became more visible in the discourse from 2011 onwards – particularly when arrest rates amongst youths began to rise albeit still make up the smallest age-group of drug users

Data indicates that anti narcotic budget in the United States has jumped up from $9.7 billion in the 90s to around$18 billion in year 2000. Moreover, The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) field agent has increased from 3,191 in 1990 to 4,561 in 2000. Despite these increase in DEA agent the number of drug abusers in the United States has boosted from 5.8% in early 90s to around 6.7% in the 1998. Approximately around 15 million of the US total population was abusing drugs in various ways in 1999. Among these 15 million around 200,000 were roughly using heroin which estimates to more than thrice the numbers in 1993 which was around 68,000 (Massing, 2000). In spite of the al the efforts being made by the law enforcement agencies against drug traffickers the numbers of drug abusers in the United States has risen tremendously in the last ten years (Bakken et al 2010).

Drugs are related to crime through the effects they have on the user’s behavior and by generating violence and other illegal activity in connection with drug trafficking. Drug-related offenses and drug-using lifestyles are major contributors to the crime problem in the United States. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) conducts an annual National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) that asks individuals living in households about their drug and alcohol use and their involvement in crimes. Provisional data for 1997 show that respondents arrested in the past year for possession or sale of drugs had the highest percentage of illicit drug use in the past year. Past year illicit drug users were also about 16 times more likely than nonusers to report being arrested and booked for larceny or theft; more than 14 times more likely to be arrested and booked for such offenses as driving under the influence, drunkenness, or liquor law violations; and more than 9 times more likely to be arrested and booked on an assault charge. The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program measures drug use among arrestees by calculating the percentage of arrestees with positive urine tests for drug use. Data collected from male arrestees in 1998 in 35 cities showed that the percentage for any drug ranged from 42.5% to 78.7%. Female arrestees testing positive ranged from 33.3% to