Priceonomics sure seems to have a high regard for its belly-button lint. Their motto is "Priceonomics: The Price Guide for Everything," ...and the value guide for nothing, I presume.
Here in Priceonomics’s home city of San Francisco, however, legalization is also eroding the easy drug profits that have been a lifeline to the remnants of the hippy scene.
Yes, lets all lament the demise of the "Haighth"[1], while ignoring the political, artistic and, well, non-weed legacies of the late-60s San Francisco subcultural landscape.
I don't think you can disentangle them. I used to be close friends (until I moved abroad) with the then-head of the Haight St. merchant's association, who had opened up the first 'head shop' there and had been intimately involved with the cultural scene there since the 60s, often as curator and sponsor, as well as with a lot of political issues (beyond the scope of a HN comment). That guy arrived in SF as a young man during the summer of love and made his seed money selling LSD before setting up a more conventional business, and I presume weed as well. I don't think you can sensibly the political and cultural changes in isolation from the recreational drug use.
Here in Priceonomics’s home city of San Francisco, however, legalization is also eroding the easy drug profits that have been a lifeline to the remnants of the hippy scene.
Yes, lets all lament the demise of the "Haighth"[1], while ignoring the political, artistic and, well, non-weed legacies of the late-60s San Francisco subcultural landscape.
1. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=haighth