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Not all hippies look like hippies or associate with them. Myself, for instance... I shave my head every 3-4 months (it's cheaper than a haircut every month plus all the shampoo and fuss). I don't go to any hippy functions. But I subscribe to Tree Hugger and 420 off of myYahoo. Deep down I figure I'm a hippy. I like the environment. I like nature. But since my early 20s I've pretty much left all that in the dust along with all hitchhiking adventures and Rainbow gathering. Maybe when I mature a little I'll go back to those carefree days.

In any case, you're right that not all hippies are pot smokers (which was the other thing you were going to say but forgot).

Anyways, I'm an English teacher. I can't look like a pot-smoking-hippy any more. The world isn't that free. I teach young kids - not college kids (I think they might be able to get away with it). Then again, maybe I could teach hippy parents' kids. I figure the same goes for doctors. How many hippy doctors are there, hiding in their white smocks. A lot of folks might even be hippies without knowing it. They're wearing their hippy genes, but they're still trying to keep them their natural dispositions from the world and themselves. If, by some miracle, they expose themselves to their families who might not be hippy friendly, they get disowned and blanketed with black, curly wool. So, it's hard to show off those hippy genes.

Fortunately, I was one of those fortunate enough to be dropped in a massive bowl of * in a room solid with the smoke of our sacred herb. So, toking a blunt merely adds to my permanent stone.