HippiesThe 1960s. A time when many events happened and happened. One particular movement, which many people called a culture, had the name most people know of hippies. They rejected the traditional lifestyle and demonstrated love and peace. They were also known as the “Flower Children”. Hippies created anti-war movements in the 1960s and kept these movements going for a long time. As long as hippies existed in American history, they did not inspire the youth of the hippie generation (1960-1970). The hippies did not embolden the youth in a positive way. They carried out many experiments which greatly affected the young people. The hippies did not galvanize the nation because of their lack of control over drug use, their laziness, and their access to free love. Hippies were known for their heavy drug use, and at the time the anti-war movement contained a large amount of drugs. the youngest. In the 1960s, drugs were not considered corrupt or a threat. They were considered a cure for illness. Specifically, medications were considered painkillers, they helped with sleep, they alleviated worry, and so on. (Hippies and drugs). In addition, in the 1950s, we consumed a lot of cigarettes. Citizens did not know the influence of cigarettes, so people in the 60s naturally did not realize how unacceptable drugs were. Additionally, hippies primarily used hallucinogenic drugs, particularly marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). In the article “Hippies” it is mentioned how hippies “justified this practice as a way to expand consciousness” (hippies). Additionally, the hippies undertook the greatest drug use in human history, completely uncontrolled (hippies and drugs). Young people have been exposed to this kind of b...... middle of paper ......imment with free love is horrible to imagine. One article refers to free love as a well-known trait of hippies: "It is undeniable that many hippies were involved in temporary sexual relationships and sexual experimentation unlike any generation before them" (Sex, Love, and Hippies). This generation was the first to open up to free love, they had a lot of sexual attitudes and complexes (Sex, Love and Hippies). Flower child, bohemian, free spirit or hippie, they have not positively changed their generation. The hippies fiercely changed the youth of their generation, they taught horrible habits and lifestyles. Adolescence was strongly impacted, particularly because most hippies were made up of it. Hippies taught drug use, laziness, and free love. Although hippies were peaceful in person, they had many problems that many did not see..