druglore

alternative drug-lore · alternative drug lore

1. uncountableThe knowledge or study of drugs and drug culture.

   This "druglore" as he calls it was collected by students in the 1960's in Berkeley, Austin and Bloomington, and as far as I know much of it is in print for the first time.

   1974, Keystone Folklore

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   Meanwhile the youth culture has generated a lively druglore and rock festival scene attuned to the vibrations of the 1960's and 1970's. Many of the themes in this new druglore can be recognized as time-honored in tradition — […]

   1978, Richard M. Dorson, Folklore in the Modern World

   Although Fowlkes means to indict, this comment could equally serve as a tribute to the British youth who took this imported music and built a culture around it, an entire apparatus of clothes and rituals, dance-moves and drug-lore.

   2012, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture