About half the baby boomer musicians I know still smoke weed on a sort of casual (or in some cases moderately regular) basis. The other half don't. The vast majority of them smoked weed casually back in "the day"...many smoked it quite frequently...a few quite heavily.
I didn't. But then, I didn't smoke cigarettes either, and everybody else I knew smoked cigarettes. I DETESTED cigarettes. I was one hell of a nonconformist, let me tell you...in my OWN peer group.
Now, mind you, I had long hair, and I loved it. Very long hair. I still have long hair. And I was a social and political radical. And a folksinger and protest singer. Yup. I just wasn't into inhaling smoke! It struck me as a really stupid and unnatural thing to do, and any animal I've ever seen would agree with me on that. Only people are dumb enough to deliberately inhale smoke in search of an alteration in consciousness, etc...
(Now don't take that personally, Bobert! ;-) Cos we are all stupid in one way or another. Me too. It goes with being human, right?)
I eventually tried the controversial weed on a handful of occasions in the late 70's, after having ignored it for many years in common company. I did that in order to find out what the fuss was all about and educate myself about it...I had already observed that it does not cause people to go mad, foam at the mouth, and commit antisocial acts. (grin) So all I had to worry about, clearly, was enduring the awful taste and smell of the stuff for a minute or two, and coping with a possible short stint of paranoia if I got scared by the high.
Fine and dandy. Well, it was an interesting experience, but not one that gave me any desire to continue partaking of the herb. Nope. I just wanted to see, like I said, what the fuss was all about. It was not about much, in my opinion! ;-) Having gained that knowledge to my satisfaction, I never smoked weed again after that.
I don't drink beer either. I used to drink wine now and then...very moderately. If it tastes good and it doesn't mess my mind and body up too much, I'll drink it now and then. Beer simply doesn't taste good...and it makes me feel gross, like I ingested a junkyard.
This could be what happens when you keep your system clean...or maybe I'm just unusually affected by it. Who knows?
I know this. Weed should not be illegal. No more so than beer. It's just not important enough or dangerous enough to be illegal...it's not half as dangerous as beer...and besides, making such things illegal just creates larger social and criminal problems for people. It's asinine to make weed illegal, and it stems from a prudish and hypocritical social order that indulges in numerous conventional addictions because they are huge, established traditional businesses, while it persecutes others in an arbitrary fashion.
So I am a 100% non-user by choice, not even interested, who recommends de-criminalization and legalization of marijuana. Let whoever wants to grow it and use in personally on their own property without harassment, I say. If they're silly enough to want to inhale smoke on a daily basis, that's up to them, and they should be allowed the freedom to do so.