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Remove Drug Image

Drugs do bring about clouds of despair
among the straight society. Many people feel
an appeal and sympathy for the hippies, but
they cannot abide by the drugs. For the hippies
to achieve their dreams, they realize that
they must receive the best wishes of the society
from which they have dropped out. To
do so, the drug image must be removed.

The use of drugs now is limited to marijuana
among many of the hippies. "We leave
acid, STP, and the rest to the college and
teenybopper set," Wizard continued. "The

straight society is sort of becoming immune to
people smoking grass. There are always lawyers
and doctors defending the stuff. When I was
in college I took more of the powerful stuff
than I have since I've moved here. I think
that's the way it is with most of us. You might
say we mature through a high and then realize
the work we are trying to do has to be done
when we're straight. We're leaving drugs now,
it's getting to be old."