The Hippie Movement of the 1960s and 1970s and the slogan “Make Love, Not War” was perpetuated by thousands of long-haired hippies and “flower children” wearing tie-dyed psychedelic T-shirts and headbands, granny-styled, rose-colored glasses and patched bell-bottoms gathering in droves to smoke grass, flash the peace sign and vehemently voice their opposition to the Vietnam War. Driving colorfully painted Volkswagen Beetles and Vans, the members of this counterculture rejected the norms of mainstream America with a movement that spread from college campuses, to Canada, Britain and beyond.
In 1969, 12 million Americans had tried pot, but today more than 140 million Americans have smoked it at least once, writes Brittney Sanger in the article “10 Things You’ll Understand If You Smoked Grass In the Hippie Days.”