Hippies.

The hippie movement was born in 1965 in the Haight-Ashbury Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, San Francisco as cultural mecca California. Students, artists, and dropouts had streamed into this area, attracted by the cheap rents and bohemian way of life that offered an alternative to the middle-class lifestyle of mainstream America. By mid-1966, boutiques, head shops (shops selling drug paraphernalia, incense, and psychedelic posters and pins), and coffeehouses with colorful names such as I/Thou, Blushing Peony, and In Gear crammed the Haight-Ashbury district. Drug culture Drug culture