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warren_stupidity t1_j1e2cay wrote

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The older generation now being boomers, almost all of whom have smoked pot.

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Fringelunaticman t1_j1ee6n9 wrote

This is far from true. The hippies were a tiny tiny section of people in the 60s/70s. The vast majority didn't smoke pot when younger. This pew research shows just 4% had smoked pot in the year 1969.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/6331/decades-drug-use-data-from-60s-70s.aspx

Boomers are the biggest new consumers of cannabis but they doesn't mean they used in the 60s. Pop culture just makes you think they did because the hippies were the loudest group and most written about group of that time. Plus, they are idolized because of their anti-establishment ideas

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ryanwalraven t1_j1epcgv wrote

This. Older folk like to take claim Rock n Roll, Woodstock, psychedelic art, and literature as part of their contributions to culture, but hippies were widely scorned and demonized at the time and the war of drugs was meant to criminalize their behavior.

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MxEverett t1_j1equ5x wrote

By the mid 1970's this percentage was much higher.

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