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/^t/In the 1950's and 60's drug-related culture had entered its Renaissance due to the popularization of Buddhist culture across America. However, the reasons for taking drugs had seriously changed. Drug culture became a rebell against well-situated middle class American society. Even in Europe, in conservative and puritanical England, since the time of the Beatles' "Lucy in The Sky with Diamonds" which was interpreted as the description of a fascinating LSD trip, the drug boom had began. Thousands of young Americans fled their homes heading towards poor suburb of Height Ashburry in San Francisco. Pot fumes hovered over the crowds gathered at the Woodstock festival, and hippies made themselves happy listening to Hendrix's harsh narco-guitar trances. Psychedelia, the weirdest trend in Rock'n'Roll, promoted LSD and pot as factors that would free people from social bounds and problems of everyday life. Drugs were supposed to be the major creative strenght in forming free communities in which life was based on the slogan "Make love, not war". Alas! All the ideals laid in ruins, and ironically, drugs which were seen as the major vital force came out to be the most vicious killer. In 1970 alone they killed three hippie gurus: Jimmie Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morisson.