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"Don't Need Drugs"

Many of the hippies I met and talked with
have never tried anything more powerful than
marijuana. Most of them say they never will.
Their reason is simple, "We've really got something
going, we don't need drugs to get high
from life and from living free."

Drugs have been to the Haight, and now
they are an old scene. Many of the hippies
the higher echelon of the power structure in
Haight-Ashbury are following a cease and desist
issue towards drug use. They want the
stigma removed, so that the straight society
can see what they are doing, which they believe
is good. They want to push the users to
the outside fringes of their society, the place
where such are found in any society.