Why didn't the hippies get into the jfk assassination ?

[Steve Minnerly]

Overall, I think LSD and pot kept too many people in that generation tranquilized into complacency. I'm not against consciousness-expansion, and the careful experimentation with such chemicals, but I think many young people were just kept drugged up so they wouldn't be a bigger threat to the system.

I knew a lot of hippies that worked incredibly hard construction jobs that smoked a lot of pot so im not sure it can be characterized as a pacifier.

A drug like heroin or barbituates or alcohol are a lot more effective at that.

LSD was actually used sparingly among the people i knew because its pretty overwhelming. Youre not gonna do acid and go about your daily routine like you could with pot.

Of course this is all just my anecdotal evidence.