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STOP THE RAVE ACT NOW!
hi i stumbled upon your site because i figured that who would be able to help my cause the most hippies. They had to endure the same persecusion for freedom of speech that my cause is trying to protect. There is a law that is trying to be passed and its called the rave act […] Continue reading
The Secret Wigwam of Chappaquiddick Island
The Secret Wigwam of Chappaquiddick By Bill Grote It was 1973, and Nixon was still president. It was before we found out he really was a crook. I had just graduated from San Francisco State College. Having worked my way through school, living on government food stamps, and the occasional odd job, I was ready […] Continue reading
Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture
By Gordon Kennedy & Kody Ryan Wandervogels Abschied by Fidus, 1900 According to Webster’s dictionary (2003) a hippie or hippy is: a young person of the 1960’s who rejected established social mores, advocated spontaneity, free expression of love and the expansion of consciousness, often wore long hair and unconventional clothes, and used psychedelic drugs. This […] Continue reading
Supreme Court Vs. Medical Marijuana Users
By Paul Dougan By a six-to-three margin, the Supreme Court proclaims sick Americans easing their pain with pot are criminal. So, an 85-year-old grandmother trying to deal with the nausea caused by her chemotherapy, seeking, perhaps, to follow the advice of her physician, is an enemy of the state. Yes, here in America, that noble […] Continue reading
The Hippies Dream
In the hills of California Where the Hippies once did rave, Five eights of the way to accomplishment Lies a godforsaken grave. Hippies have never flowered the tomb Though the tombstone’’s said to gleam, For the fools that dug the hole never mentioned to a soul Where they buried the Hippies dream? www.xlibris.com/MeetMarkTwain.html Posted by: […] Continue reading
Republicans, Christians and Hippies
by Glenn McReynolds It was Sunday morning. I was living and working in North Wales at the time. It was one of those cool but sunny Welsh mornings…too incredible to describe really. When a knock came on the door. It was a guy I had come to know. His name was Chris. Now Chris was […] Continue reading
Marijuana Doesn’t Cause Permanent Brain Damage!
This article speaks for itself. UCSD was the first university allowed to study pot now that the US government has sanctioned studies on marijuana for the first time in decades! (Please note: this article can no longer be found on Reuter’s website, so we are publishing it here in the public interest) Study: Pot Doesn’t […] Continue reading
Medical Establishment Cares More About Profits Than People
by yves engler Last Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal and Financial Times ran front page articles about accussations against Medco, a subsidiary of Merck & Co. over false statements and claims to the government. This is in addition to investigations of Medco over violations of “anti-trust, consumer-protection and pharmacy-licensing laws” by at least 25 state attorney […] Continue reading
A Trip Through the Sixties – The Student Rights Movement
The Student Rights Movement The most exciting things going on in America today are movements to change America…The futures and careers for which American students now prepare are for the most part intellectual and moral wastelands. This chrome-plated consumers paradise would have us grow up to be well-behaved children. – Mario Savio (Free Speech Movement […] Continue reading
Famous Hippies, Friends and Enemies
Hippies from A to Z by Skip Stone Famous Hippies, Friends and Enemies. The following list of people includes those who influenced or were part of the hippy movement as well as those who sought to repress it. Some of these outstanding individuals have devoted much of their lives to causes that benefit everyone. Many […] Continue reading