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wow, I so undersand now, so no one here is really a hippie because they wern't alive to protest in the 60's.

and I'm not a hippie becuase I don't listen to the HIPPIE MACHINE and protest agains the GOVERNMENT MACHINE.
That's one thing about being a hippie you see, it's about not having to do things but making your own decisions. They decide on peace and love as a means to happiness, but they still decide on thier own. And NO ONE is extreamly correct. Remember, those hippies from the 60's started the sexual revolution, and now we have rampent stds to blame on them.

you should read my comment to AtsuiKetsueki and then review you're thoughts about how it doesn't hurt your image. If you still dissagree respond and we can debate it.

However, guys, It's summer break starting friday, and I don't expect to be on the dial up we have at home very often. so this is adios for a while. Keep debating though, I'll catch up with you later. *(Y), <3, & hapiness* domokun

I don't agree with hard drugs such as LSD and s**t that really messes you up.

And while I may not be a personal user of marijuana, I find it okay for others to use as long as they use it responsibly and in moderation.

Although marijuana was heavily used among hippies, not all actually smoked it, and that was okay. They actually had a distinction among "good drugs" (that expanded your mind/consciousness) and "bad drugs" (those that 'made the user stupid' such as speed, downers, etc.).

There was even a handful of rules that went along with using drugs. "Use it positively, use it sanely, know what you're doing, avoid bad drugs, avoid the misuse of (good) drugs. Don't use dope to hurt others, assert your freedom to make your own decisions about dope, and have a good trip." (Miller, Timothy. The Hippies and American Values. 27)

For today, though, we have to take into consideration both the new knowledge we have about drugs and the different views society today holds of them. While it was more the "in" thing to do in the sixties, views are more polarized today. Some view it as good, and others bad - depending on where you are (group of friends vs. job interview), and etc. etc. etc.

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Drug use is a personal choice. Just don't hurt others, don't hurt me, and don't hurt yourself. <3

there very name "hippie" came from a term used for opium smoker because they would lay on their hip while smoking it (if you ever smoked the stuff then you would know thats about all you can do) If you dotn want to do drugs thats fine...i personally think your missign out on soem great stuff passing up Shrooms and Acid which I feel can greatly expand you mind and improve your life. Much about the hippie philosophy is about rejecting societies norms and much psychological research has been done with psychedellic showing that they have the power to help a person break through years and years of social conditioning and even straight up brainwashing.

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wow someone should have told me that earlier...cause ive been doing that kinda s**t for quite a while and im perfectly normal...no studies have show any permenate brain or body damage fro macid or shrroms...they very early govt studies casue alot of freak otu because they were using prisoners ina empty and medical enviroment and beleive me that would induce a bad trip...you gotta trip on the beach or in the woods

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Addiction issues that cause harm to others or themselves, financial burdens, relationship tensions (family, friend, intimate, etc), or etc etc etc. Brain damage. Denial of such problems. And the like.

All if applicable.