Best of 2000: Best Counterculture Shop

High Road Psychedelic Shop
1465 Garnet Avenue,
Pacific Beach
(858) 273-7501

Many '70s survivors find it comforting that High Times magazine, Zig-Zag rolling papers, bongs, and glass pipes are available at head shops, while the activities associated with these things are as illegal as ever. The High Road, with a second location on El Cajon Boulevard in the College Area, now caters to a nearly mainstream clientele of nostalgic heads, nouveau young hippies, and party animals. Even the drug-free and psychedelically impaired can find jewelry, incense, T-shirts, books, and back issues of Relix Magazine and Grateful Dead Comix.