My Dad graduated from college in the mid 60s. Not only did he never use drugs, he didn't even *know* anyone who had used them. (Beer, however, was a whole 'nother story.....)
Contrast that with his siblings who graduated in the late 60s and early 70s.
Or, with myself. Even counting myself as "One", I'd still have a hard time filling up one hand with the number of people I knew in college who *hadn't* tried something illicit.
What’s the saying, “If you remember the 60s, you weren’t there.”
Yeah.
By the time I graduated HS in the late 70’s, dope smoking, coke etc... Were ubiquitous as was Led Zep and Pink Floyd worship.
It was the 70’s where the pioneers, that this writer looks back at nostalgically, had finally made their influence widespread and mainstream.
That’s interesting because I went to college in the early 70s and can count maybe on two hands the people who I knew who did drugs. Where did you go to school Berkeley?