Drug education and Censorship.

The American counterculture of the 1960s, with its psychedelic music and widespread use of mind-altering drugs helped bring what had been a marginal subculture to suburbia. Drug use had long been recognized as common among jazz musicians and other marginal groups, but few parents and educators concerned themselves with drug problems until drugs suddenly became more widely known and experienced. State and federal governments began strengthening laws relating to controlled substances, as well as increasing penalties and creating special agencies to combat drug use.