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PRE-ORDER: Heads Together: Weed and the Underground Press Syndicate 1965-1973

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The youth uprising, now simply called '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, reaching millions of readers. They 'spread like weed', said the UPS director, weed-dealer, and eventual founder of High Times, Tom Forcade. The metaphor was apt: the UPS spurred the legalisation movement, and weed became its totem. Weed was so pervasive it became a helpful means for government agencies to crack down on the UPS. Wee

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