Are weed smokers really peace loving hippies?

[Flameon]

I was down at my local head shop this weekend and couldn't help noticing that almost half of the paraphernalia for sale was covered in either: 'CND' symbols, or 'Hippie' type 'peace and love' imagery.

"Not that there is anything wrong in being a hippie", some of my best friends are tree huggers, and I always was in favour of a bit of 'free love'.

But, is this what the average stoner is really about these days, or is it just a tired old cliche that manufacturers assume is going to help sell their products.

Would a 'CND' logo on a grinder (for instance) make you more or less likely to buy it?

Flameon Reviewed by Flameon on 12-03-2007. Are weed smokers really peace loving hippies? I was down at my local head shop this weekend and couldn't help noticing that almost half of the paraphernalia for sale was covered in either: 'CND' symbols, or 'Hippie' type 'peace and love' imagery. "Not that there is anything wrong in being a hippie", some of my best friends are tree huggers, and I always was in favour of a bit of 'free love'. But, is this what the average stoner is really about these days, or is it just a tired old cliche that manufacturers assume is going to help Rating: 5

[Silent Wolf]

Just a stereotype. It's like saying all those who drink beer are wife beating maniacs. weed is smoked by people from all walks of life. One of my firends is actually a right-wing conservative, and even he likes to smoke a bit of pot now and again.

[cm8883]

I agree, a stereotype. It's probably done because the hippies are credited with starting the whole weed scene in the 60's.

We know it was smoked years earlier, but mainstream media still associates it with the counter culture movement.

[RUTBpiping]

A total stereotype.......none of my mates are hippies and they almost all of them smoke. :thumbsup:

[make it legal]

No, but I find people who smoke will be more on the hipiesh side of things. Not actual hippies, but still like peace, are very chill, don't flow with the "in" crowd. People nowadays who smoke are also more likely to be interested in hippie culture. I am. The only violent pot smokers I could think of are those stupid gangsta ass muthafuggas who just want to try to prove how tough they are.

If you think about it 90% of the things you buy are going to be marketed a certain way to make people buy them. But I don't care. I like that way hippie style shit looks. If I had to choose between a tie-die bong with a peace sign on it, or a bong with maybe flames or something like that; I'd take the tie-die.

[geonagual]

I am not sure what "CND" is

[cm8883]

I am not sure what "CND" is

Ha! I see I'm not the only one...had to wiki it...

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Storm Crow]

Kids, the hippie stuff is because we are STILL HERE! Hippies are not extinct- we just changed our clothes! Now we got the cash to buy the do-dads, and we buy that "Genuwine" Indian Hookah, the sterling silver CND, whatever it was that we lusted over in our teens and 20s!

And I was not the only "elderly" person at the head shop last time I was there! And besides, society is cyclical- all that stuff WILL come back in style, maybe slightly changed, but it will be back! - Granny :hippy: (straight looking on the outside- beads and flowers on the inside)

[Old Stoner]

AMEN, Granny, amen! We (us "early" heads) ARE still here, and toking like a smokestack, LOL.

I wear a tye-dyed Aerosmith t-shirt a LOT, and then there's my UPS shirt that my lady just hates (you know, United Pot Smokers).

Last time I was in a head shop (last week) a VERY OLDER woman came in and bought a "stone" and a glass pipe. God bless her!

Bet she wasn't gonna smoke tobacky out of it, he, he, he...

[Dutch Pimp]

Old hippies never die...they just go back underground; from wince they came.....:hippy: