HEADS TOGETHER Weed and The Underground Press Syndicate 1965 -1973

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.