They would have enjoyed the experience more sober instead of in a haze of drugs. Many probably don't remember much. A good opportunity wasted.
shareYou brought out some really stupid people whom i assume have been schooled in Quentin Tarantino's historical revisionism. The idealistic usage of LSD may have been misguided (and, one wonders, why would these kids want to muck around with something like LSD that the CIA had been experimenting with since the 50's) but the attitude toward marijuana shows shifting public attitudes on that drug. If 20% (and counting) of US states have already legalized it, it's because relaxed attitudes toward that mild psychedelic were evolving even 50 years ago. Woodstock remains a valid historical and cultural document of its era.
shareIf the audience hadn't been on drugs, they might have noticed that they were lying around in a filthy mudpit with nothing to eat.
this festival was in the flower power hippy era, which was mainly fueled by drugs dude, either you are stupid or fully retarded not to know this, maybe both
shareDrugs were certainly a part of the experience, but not the sole driving force. They were one of many potential paths for inner exploration & expanding the possibilities of what was a rather narrow, materialistic worldview. Those ideas & concepts abounded then in all the arts, encouraging new & more holistic approaches to life—that's why there was so much creative brilliance then. To this day, I'll take someone using grass or LSD in a thoughtful way to someone using meth or speed or coke simply to get wasted. It was an entirely different & far more positive zeitgeist then.
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