They did change the world though. I was brought up in a conservative household and hippie was a derogatory term in my household for a drug-addicted vagabond. B

They did change the world though. I was brought up in a conservative household and hippie was a derogatory term in my household for a drug-addicted vagabond. But the counterculture gave us music, changes sexual and religious mores, and lead to a fundamental shift in how people thought of themselves as a part of society and the world, at least in the West. And a lot of this experimentation and culture was fueled/inspired by drugs. Nixon wanted to end, or at least control that.