Originally Posted by jgd85

In the 1990s, the term became a blanket description for middle class young people associated with alternative culture, particularly alternative music, independent rock, independent film and a lifestyle revolving around thrift store shopping, eating organic, locally grown, vegetarian, and/or vegan food, drinking local or brewing beer, listening to public radio, riding bicycles, and magazines like Vice and Clash and website Pitchfork Media.[5]

Robert Lanham's satirical The Hipster Handbook described hipsters as young people with "...mop-top haircuts, swinging retro pocketbooks, talking on cell phones, smoking European cigarettes, ... strutting in platform shoes with a biography of Che Guevara sticking out of their bags."[6]

Hipsters are considered apathetic, pretentious, and self-entitled by other, often marginalized sectors of society they live amongst, including previous generations of bohemian and/or "counter-culture" artists and thinkers as well as poor neighborhoods of color.

Originally Posted by jackhammer

Pot is not the root of all evil. Far from it but if someone is suffering ill health in their life and is using pot as a big part of it then maybe they need to lay off it. Simple as that. If they smoked, drank, did pot and acid then I would have been predujiced singling out a particular vice but as he has many health problems, maybe it would be advisable to eliminate a practice that is not always condusive to the human condition.