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Drugs In The United States From The 1960-19--
==== In the sixties, there was a variety of drugs used. Among them, the more popular ones that helped shape the sixties were LSD (acid), Marijuana, and Magic Mushrooms.

LSD used in the sixties
==== In the sixties, LSD was more commonly referred to as acid and is a psychedelic. While LSD was still legal, it was only sold, and used, in a tablet form. LSD became illegal on October 6, 1966. After LSD was made illegal, it was sold and used in a variety of new ways, such as in a crystal form, in a liquid form that you would put in your body or on your skin, another liquid form that was put onto something, such as a sugar cube or blotter paper and ingested, or mixing it with other drugs, such as putting it on marijuana. ====

Marijuana used in the sixties
==== Marijuana has mainly been illegal since 1931, so it was still illegal to use in the sixties, yet it was a popular drug to use. Marijuana was used in various ways, such as smoking buds of it in pipes, mixing buds of it into food, such as brownies, making tea from the buds or leaves, or smoking a concentrated resin of it. Although marijuana is not a "mind altering" substance, it was still popular because people could get a 'buzz' from it. ====

Magic Mushrooms In The Sixties
==== Magic Mushrooms was also a popular drug used in the sixties. "Magic Mushrooms" are psychedelic mushrooms belonging to Psilocybe Cubensis, which contains an active ingredient that causes a hallucinogenic response when ingested. The more popular ways of consuming the drug consisted of soaking the mushrooms in honey, giving the honey a bluish color and doses the honey, cutting the mushrooms into small pieces and cooking them with other foods, eating the mushrooms directly whether they were cooked or raw, putting the mushrooms whole onto pizza, or making tea. ====