drug culture
Underground intoxicant scene
Drug culture refers to the social practices, attitudes, slang, music, and aesthetics that develop around recreational drug use.
Different substances foster distinct subcultures—psychedelics shaped 1960s counterculture, cocaine fueled disco and Wall Street excess, rave scenes grew around ecstasy.
The term can describe anything from casual marijuana enthusiasts to harder underground scenes: He got deep into drug culture after college.
- stonerHabitual marijuana smoker
- recreational useNon-professional enjoyment purpose
- hippieSixties counterculture member
- bongWater-filtered smoking apparatus
- tweakerMethamphetamine abuser
decriminalization · harm reduction · normalization · high society · raver · sentencing reform · psychonaut · trip sitter · psychedelic art · altered states · 420 · Timothy Leary · legalization · beat poetry · protest songs · counterculture · Aldous Huxley · rolling papers
- 20th century cultureRoaring Twenties, Jazz Age, Great Depression, baby boom, counterculture
- Sixtieshippies, Beatles, Woodstock, Vietnam War, JFK
- 70s Activismantiwar movement, Black Power, boycotts, Cesar Chavez, consciousness raising
- Underground Comixunderground press, indie comics
drug culturestraight edge
Unbent measuring tool
temperance movement · teetotalism · clean living · Just Say No · abstinence
drug cultureestablishment
Founded organization or venue
conformity · bourgeois values · bourgeois culture · traditional values · traditionalism
drug culturefitness culture
Societal focus on exercise
clean living · asceticism · purity culture · self-discipline · biohacking