Heads Together - Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate 1965-1973

Heads Together - Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate 1965-1973A huge book and a glorious graphic design and illustration herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s. The youth uprising now simply known as 'The Sixties' was fed by one of the greatest booms in publishing history. The Underground Press Syndicate (UPS) began as a loose confederation of five papers in 1966, and within a few years swelled to over 500 across the world, including Kaleidoscope, International

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and a radical insistence on life

the classic returns a third time thanks to the many fans who voted for it in a poll held

come to think of it

Petersburg

Egypt & Berlin

bicycles and ‘youth gone mad’ are combined to give Ray Fong his visual language of anguish

the periodical sought to codify a visual language of high and low culture that represented contemporary society in the late 1960s

Darragh McCausland

this most familiar yet renewedly strange occupation

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is like hitching a ride to some blissful place