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"Lots" is not the same thing as "the vast majority". Millions of people used LSD between '66 and '80.

• standardUser 5y ago
  Millions of people use LSD every year today, in addition to a dozen other hallucinogens. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americans-increase-lsd-use-and-a-bleak-outlook-for-the-world-may-be-to-blame1/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americans-increas... "In the late 1970s... 10 percent of high school seniors reported ever using LSD, compared with 6 percent today." Ten percent isn't very much. Americans in the 60's and 70's were far more likely to support endless jail time for drug users than to be one themself.
  • slibhb 5y ago
    > Ten percent isn't very much Is this really a hill you want to die on? Seems like a rather large sample to me... Here's a graph from wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_diethylamide#/media/File:LSD_annual_new_use_USA_1967-2008.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_lysergic_acid_dieth...
  • aaaaaaaaata 5y ago
    > Ten percent isn't very much. It took less than that to bring Pokémon-frenzy into my school, and it only takes 1-3% of a population to effect revolution. I don't know, bud.