Where Do Your Parents Buy Their Weed?

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You didn't think baby-boomers had stopped smoking, did you?

The stigma that has long hung over marijuana in this country is slowly being Febrezed away. Americans have quietly relaxed their attitudes toward pot as more people have gained access for legal, recreational use. Weed is a cash crop in Colorado and Washington, just like corn or hay. In the places where it hasn’t been legalized or decriminalized—perhaps your fair state is next!—Americans appear far more concerned about crucial issues like education and inequality than someone sparking a joint in their backyard.

Among the many, many changes this societal shift has brought about: our most decorated pot smokers—those baby-boomers who lived through the halcyon Summer of Love and the fog that followed—are now indulging in the open and quasi-open like they haven’t been allowed to since Nixon was in office. Despite what you might think, Mom and Dad didn’t stop getting...

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