I’m a hippie-loving native San Franciscan who saw her first Dead show at 13. Greek Theater it was awesome.

What we have with a subsection of teens and young adults on the street in Portland, Ore. and San Francisco in the mid-2020s descends from the aftermath of 1960s drop-out drug culture. The behaviors are born from norms & attitudes rather than economics or housing supply.

The trio in the first photo passed through San Francisco from Ohio in 1967. The young man below them came from New York State almost sixty years after. That’s two generations later.

In addition to housing policy, are politicians ready to talk about the replenishable cohort succumbing to west coast drug culture?