class=p1Just as the good vibes from the Summer of Love spread out from San Francisco, the 1960s counterculture movement blossomed and marijuana use among the anti-establishment became the norm. Led by poet/activist and Marijuana Newsletter publisher Ed Sanders with beat poet Allen Ginsburg at his side, the 1960s saw one of the first ever organized public protests against restrictive marijuana laws. Though the event itself was dubbed LeMar (Legalize Marijuana), it later formed the basis for the California based pot reform group Amorphia. - The Huffington Post