the merry pranksters

Speed was widely used within the pranksters and other hippies. Often there isn't much focus put on the speed epidemic of the 60's...but it was a BIG DEAL. the stuff was legal and they used it regurally with LSD and marijuana.

 

when yall talk about the speed epidemic, do u mean amphetamine or methamphetamine?

 

^^pretty much sums it up! Hey have you heard their making a movie?! Supposed to come out this year...

 

yeah i heard that, and theyre making a cool documentary about the brotherhood of eternal love...

 

really?! omg! Does it also come out this year?

 

its supposed to... check out the trailer on youtube.. oh n btw ur an angel

 

Without amphetamines we would not have books like Kerouac's On The Road or Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. And without heroin and other opiates, how much great literature would not exist? How much music came as a result of each? Even if you can't accept that those drugs themselves can bring about inspiration in the way psychedelics can, they can certainly help a person execute the ideas they gained from the psychedelic experience.


And if you've ever had any real experience with psychedelics, you'd probably realize that the idea of "evil drugs" is completely ridiculous. I don't know if you have, but I can't imagine making it past my first acid trip with the notion that ANYTHING was inherently "evil" intact.

 

true true ginsberg, kerouac, burroughs and thompson all wrote under the influence.... it was the greatest period of american literature in MY opinion... oh n i knw theres no such thing as "evil", my favourite drugs r heroin and cocaine.. i used the word cuz thats what the hippies used to call them... should have put it between quotations though...