Am I still a Hippie if I Don't Take Drugs?

am i still a hippie if i have to ask other people if im a hippie?

 

Does it really matter if you are/call yourself a hippy, or not?
It's just a convenient label after all...

 

Saying that your a hippie because you do drugs is like calling yourself a gangster because you carry a gun. It's the sterotypes of the world.

 

I've actually asked myself this question many times. I don't do drugs, and I don't really dress very hippie like, but man you should see my house - filled to the brim with tie-dye tapestries, trippy psychedelic posters, indian motifs and other assorted craziness. my wife calls us "amish hippies."

i definitely think of myself as a hippie, but you'd have to have a conversation with me to know it. even though i gave up the drugs many moons ago, the mind warpage and open mindedness remain.

 

What are you in your heart?

 

Could I suggest that we study biology and chemistry to realize that anything that we put on or ingest into the body that is not natural is causing diseased states.

Sixtieschild

 

What are you defining as natural here?

I can also think of plenty of counter-examples to what I suspect you mean.
Life is not so simplistic.

 

Hi Sethvir. I'd say natural and appropriate verses artificial. For example, you wouldn't drink water laced with rat poison but we drink water treated with sodium fluoride.

We consume cannabis but we allow it to be labeled marijuana even though the word means prisoner.

 

Just about everything we ingest with the possible exception of the water and air is artificial in some way or has been fed with artificial substances. An awful lot of "natural" substances in food/etc are produced en-masse using artificial synthesis/refining.

In my eye it is best to consider each substance for it's own merits.
Assuming that artificial=bad blinds you to what really is bad (and there is lots of it).

There is plenty of natural stuff I don't want near my body too...

 

I still occasionally roll one for relaxation purposes but if you feel you don't need to use stimulants -then don't! I've seen too many of my friends lowered into the ground because of it!

 

Hippie is not what you do, how you dress, and etc. Hippie is who you are. If you have to question what you are, then maybe you are mistaken, and need to find yourself. Your true self.

 

yesssss you can be a hippie even w/o drugs. I just realized these days once more that w/o drugs I am as hippie as with drugs. There are some positive things about being w/o drugs for sure.