I am meeting some youngsters here and a few older hippies all the way back from the 60's and 70's.
(I'm surprised at the younger red necks here smoking and growing pot.)
I'd enjoy hearing from some of the old timers, who were known BACK THEN as FLOWER CHILDREN, OR HEADS, FREAKS, OR HIPPIES. I'd like to share some old stories, first trip, first smoke, first Pop Festival.

Anyone here go to Woodstock? Atlanta Pop Festival?

I am 58 years old, and I went to the Atlanta Pop Festival at age 20 in July 1970. I was a 240 lb redneck football player who often went to the races at that race track looking for a fight. I was blown away by seeing all those hippies, laying around screwing, smoking, running around naked. LOVE was what it was all about. I took my first LSD there, Timothy Leary was giving it away free off the back of a pick up truck. It was in liquid in a small one inch tall cup, in about 1/2 tablespoon of orange juice. I 'd never heard of Led Zepplin who played there, they did not have a album out yet. Smoked my fitrst joint and hash there too. 6 months later, I weighed 140 lbs. wore bell bottoms ONLY, went 13 years without a hair cut, was called a HEAD or FREAK and I dealt off Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta, walking down the sidewalk chanting "grass, hash, LSD" to every one I met. I did Conscientious Objector Counseling and was paid by the Federal Goverment to do it.

Was anyone else here, back there then? Let's share some old days and talk.

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you have got to be the coolest old guy in the world...

LOL i love it what i would have given to have ben alive back in them days man keep on rocking my hippy brother i am 30 so i cant say i have ben there but what i would give to have ben there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I was in the middle of the desert when the drugs began to take hold!!!!!!!!!!!

in 1970 to about '73, you could stand on the corner of Peachtree Street and 14th Street to 10th St , the hippie district, and smoke a j in front of the pigs.
You could also openly deal, we were harmless and the cops thought "who cares what they do to each other". We were all freaks, we were all bors and sisters, no matter if you was gay, black, mexican, whatever. Everyone was accepted. ANGER and HATE and Prejudice was NOT COOL.
Around 73 or 74, the bikers came for the chicks and drugs and money, the militant blacks came for the same plus to recruit and organize, , and with them came coke and heroin , and the "good ole days" of dealing on the streets and smoking at free concerts in the park without hassle were over.
We bought nichol bags for $5.00, about a matchbox full, and paid $12 to $15 for a lid, three fingers in a baggie, about 3/4 oz, the name LID came from the Prince Albert Tobacco Can size. Almost always what was called DIRT MEXICAN , full of seed, tasted like dirt, compacted, bricked, big stems, not manicured, half buds, half leaves, males mixed in too. We seldom got quality GOLD BUD, RED BUD, or MICHMICAN OR jAMACIAN. Columbian did not come around until around 1976. You could not give HOME GROWN away for free then. No one wanted it.
ACID was $5, Peoyte $5, Psysibin, (SillySibun) was $5. Hash was $5 a gram. We did drugs but we did not do dope (Coke, Heroin, Meth-Speed, Pills) A lot of heads would not speak to you if you did dope, but we all did drugs. LOL Everything from food, drugs to women was shared by all.
Those were the days!

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yeah, I remember those days too. Well your a bit older than me dude. hehehe
I remember doing my 1st hit of (real) lsd about 1968 or so. I also remember seeing Led Zepplin play at the garden, tripping my ass off, & the beach boys play at another concert in ney jersey, that was my 1st time smoking honey oil.
The 1st time I bought weed was $10.00 an ounce.
I remember my brother and I, moving into an old farm that was converted into a commune, and as we drove up the driveway, seeing the naked girls walking around, thinking to myself....this must be heaven!
I was working during the weekend of the woodstock festival, my family owned a liquor store, that was accessible from an off ramp of the highway, that was heavily traveled by people going to woodstock, boy was I jealous. They were all stopping in, and filling up.
I know from some of your previous posts, that you miss those days, I do too!
Peace

commies suck ass.

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Commies or communes? My times certainly have changed when the younger crowd dosen't know what a commune is.
Peace

communists you silly bastard.

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i was just finding weed when sabbath came out. zeppelin, rush. my parents were well aware of what was up. i was allowed no part of it. my friends told me stories of concerts. i did smoke the herb though. high school bathroom. girls room at that. that was the smoke out room. yep, homegrown was crap. tai stick, panama red, hawiiaan gold. seeds everywhere. never really thought t plant them. no one would dare!!!! my mom found milkweed in the backyard and almost killed me. it was just a weed. she thought it was mine. a doobie was .75 cents. but according to my dad it was all laced. paraquat was out to kill you. and hippy music was from the devil. good thing my parents teachings failed. thanks mom and dad, you did your best and i'm OK.

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From one silly bastard to another......I may br a bit drunk, but I'm still shaking my head trying to figure out what communists have to do with this thread?
Peace