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=='Turn on, tune in, drop out'==

=='Turn on, tune in, drop out'==

This quotation, by 'counter-culture' guru [[Timothy Leary]], epitomises the attitude of many 1960s nostalgiacs towards [[illegal drugs]]. Drugs have been a perennial problem in societies worldwide, but in the 1960s the problem became much worse. This is because drug-taking, which was previously the covert activity of a tiny minority, perceived as immoral as well as illegal by society, suddenly became portrayed as acceptable in the media. Worse, advocates of 'permissiveness' such as Leary openly recommended the use of mind-altering drugs as a means to access a different, supposedly better, reality. Many, if not most, of these advocates had inadequate personalities which prevented them from participating fully in the richness of real life. However, their pernicious effect upon a generation of impressionable young people has been incalculable.  

This quotation, by 'counter-culture' guru [[Dr Timothy Leary]], epitomises the attitude of many 1960s nostalgiacs towards [[illegal drugs]]. Drugs have been a perennial problem in societies worldwide, but in the 1960s the problem became much worse. This is because drug-taking, which was previously the covert activity of a tiny minority, perceived as immoral as well as illegal by society, suddenly became portrayed as acceptable in the media. Worse, advocates of 'permissiveness' such as Leary openly recommended the use of mind-altering drugs as a means to access a different, supposedly better, reality. Many, if not most, of these advocates had inadequate personalities which prevented them from participating fully in the richness of real life. However, their pernicious effect upon a generation of impressionable young people has been incalculable.  

Drug abuse often went hand in hand with [[left wing]] politics, and the loosely-rolled 'joint' or 'reefer' became the trademark of the 1960s student revolutionary, plotting the replacement of [[democracy]] in his bedsit or student dorm.

Drug abuse often went hand in hand with [[left wing]] politics, and the loosely-rolled 'joint' or 'reefer' became the trademark of the 1960s student revolutionary, plotting the replacement of [[democracy]] in his bedsit or student dorm.