Tokyo in 1967

Racy Comic Books and Birdseed Highs in Japan When you think "Summer of Love," you think of Hippies on acid in San Francisco, Andy Warhol's Factory parties in New York, and maybe Pink Floyd taking psychedelic rock to new heights. But the image of students in Tokyo getting high on imported birdseed doesn't jump to the fore. "The simplest way for people to get marijuana was in pet stores," recalls Koji Takazawa, a leader of Zenkyoto, an alliance of Japanese student movements in the 60s. "There were hemp seeds in the birdseed, so peop...

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