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One large aspect of the culture of the counterculture was drugs. Marijuana and LSD were two of the most abundant things found around the hippies and especially in their communes. But on October 6, 1966 the state of California made LSD a control substance therefore making it illegal and this being such a key part of the hippie lifestyle many people were very unhappy. The areas of Haight-Ashbury and the other communes of hippies in the area gathered in the panhandle area of the Golden Gate Park to show their defiance of this new law. This became know as the Love Pageant Rally. This rally however was one of the celebration rather than a protest. The leader of the organization Allen Cohen said, " Without confirmation we wanted to create a celebration of innocence. We were not guilty of using illegal substances. We were celebrating transcendental consciousness. The beauty of the universe. The beauty of being."1 Up to two thousand people gathered in the park that day and bands such as the Grateful Dead, the Holding Company, and Wildflower played. The people that gathered in the park that day to celebrate their drug of choice and listen to music were also encouraged to ""the color gold photos of personal saints and gurus and heroes of the underground children flowers flutes drums feathers bands beads banners flags incense chimes gongs cymbals symbols costumes."2 This rally only lasted a day but to finish the day of celebration a group reading from a psychedelic manifesto was done while at the same time many people place a tablet of acid on their tongues' in unison. This was just another way to celebrate their drug of choice and to show their continued use and beliefs in LSD. Although this rally was not one of the largest events for the counterculture it was one event that inspired the events of that summer which became known was the Summer of Love and the Human Be-In movement which took place in the Golden Gate Park as well.