Drug culture

Drug culture is a set of social practices, values, norms, and symbols associated with recreational drug use. The history of recreational drug use goes back to prehistory, though drug culture rose to prominence as a term through the psychedelic movement and counterculture of the 1960s. Drug subcultures are groups of people united by a common understanding of the meaning, value, and risks of the incorporation into one's life of the drug(s) in question. Such unity can take many forms, from friends who take the drug together, possibly obeying certain rules of etiquette, groups banding together to help each other obtain drugs and avoid arrest, to full-scale political movements for the reform of drug laws.