What were the positive effects of the hippie movement?

[Chryshell]

rather than just peace, what did the hippies do for for America?
How did they make it better for the Vietnam war?
social, political, and culture wise.

[shlomo]

nothing but better drugs

[thepeng]

what? what peace did they cause... They didn't make it better for the vietnam war. They frequently blamed troops returning for it, men who fought and who watched their friends die were spit at on the streets because they did their duty. The hippies were a miserable failure. They promoted drug abuse and didn't bathe. disgusting.

[Linda M]

Woodstock

[The Doctor]

Getting high on hallucinogenic and psychoactive drugs.

[huston3]

wide spread weed smoking
making popular the idea of questioning authority
free love
racial tolerance
the idea that you can bring a society to its knees without killing it.

[Russ]

Absolute 0, nodda, nothing, negative factor infinite, and the facts dictate that "Hippies" caused, and continue to cause chaos... study history, and realize that too many so-called "Hippies" are active members of our so-called political system...

[Joe C]

The whole point of the '60's was to OPEN THE MIND. Get off the assembly line of conformity. We started taking other races and cultures more seriously, and had black heroes in guitar virtuosos like Jimi Hendrix. Substitute Jimi for Barack Obama, and you can see we are almost going through the same process now, and have a chance to see through race to reach even higher levels

[Rick K]

Made babies that grew up to be spoiled rotten.

[unknown]

we did a bit of this in history... Well in the Vietnam war they did loads of protest at universities and places. They just want to start a new better life for every one so every one could be treated the same and have freedom