The Dark Side Of The Summer Of Love

July, 2007

How meth and madness destroyed the hippie dreamhow meth and madness destroyed the hippie dreamforty years ago this summer a sizable segment of the country's youth was gripped by a peculiar frenzy. Something was stealing away America's teenagers. In what seemed like nothing less than a replay of the Children's Crusade of the Middle Ages, normal kids from middle-class homes suddenly took to the road, often carrying little more than the clothes on their back. They came from far and wide, refugees f...

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