<p>Is it true that most people at Berkeley are either potheads or super nerdy?</p>
<p>Yup. Thats completely true. Congratulations on your acceptance!</p>
<p>Open-minded and intelligent? They are at every campus in America, including Berkeley.</p>
<p>Yup and if ur not a pothead already by the time u get there u will be totally out casted. good luck!</p>
<p>@andandy</p>
<p>How is drug abuse being open-minded? If you take drugs (including caffeine) routinely, then that shows that you are covering up a much bigger problem. That's not being open-minded; that's not facing the music and is very much close-minded.</p>
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How is drug abuse being open-minded and intelligent? If you take drugs (including caffeine) routinely, then that shows that you are covering up a much bigger problem.
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<p>I think you're not open-minded or intelligent by making such a grossly wrong explanation</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Stef does a podcast on drugs...
^^I think that video accurately sums up my feelings about drugs (that's not me in the video).</p>
<p>All right, let me be the first person to answer this question seriously.</p>
<p>NO, not everyone is a "pothead". If you don't want to smoke, you certainly don't have too. Although Berkeley is definitely far more marijuana-friendly than most places (and yes, that's a good thing, for reasons I won't get into), for the most part smoking is done in private or at parties. You can very easily avoid it altogether by just avoiding that scene- don't go to co-op/frat parties, etc. If you want to go to parties, go and don't smoke. It's not that difficult, and people generally won't look down on it for you.</p>
<p>This idea that Berkeley is full of shameless hippies and hapless nerds is just ridiculous. Anyone who has been to campus knows this is not true.</p>
<p>katalina must be high</p>
<p>Obviously not all 26,000 undergrads at Berkeley are potheads.</p>
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<p>Ummm...I think that's a pretty accurate description of Berkeley, actually, as long as you don't put a very negative spin on "shameless" and "hapless". I think a lot of Berkeley people (both the school and the city) would be more than happy to describe themselves as "shameless hippies" and/or "hapless nerds."</p>
<p>It doesn't sound like you're a pothead, OP.</p>
<p>Therefore, if you go there, no, not everyone will be a pothead ;)</p>
<p>What a rhetorical question. I have not met hardcore potheads or super nerdy people, but they probably do exist somewhere.</p>
<p>OP, the point is this: You'll find people you'll get along with, even if you aren't a pothead. But because potheads and nerds dominate the population, you'll need to be tolerant of these two lifestyles.</p>
<p>afruff, if you think youre gonna make it by without taking amazing amounts of caffeine (or adderall) here then good luck</p>
<p>I actually would say most kids are pretty clean of drugs in all respects. On my floor only one kid could be considered a pothead..a major at that, but beside him and his friends, no one on my floor smokes weed and most have never even tried it. If you want to find potheads..you'll find them like at any school..but I would say most of the students.....especially asians..don't smoke. Also I have nothing against potheads I think every dorm needs a few to make things interesting (:</p>
<p>@bcp05</p>
<p>There's a difference between all-nighters with energy drinks and becoming dependent (psychologically) on something. For instance, I drink an energy drink every now and then. Can I stop if I wanted to? Yes.</p>
<p>But there are still lots of people who can't get by a single day without a cup of coffee.</p>
<p>kenf: " I think a lot of Berkeley people (both the school and the city) would be more than happy to describe themselves as "shameless hippies" and/or "hapless nerds.""</p>
<p>I agree, but I don't think you're really getting across what it means to be a "hippie" in Berkeley. Without sidetracking too much, people here think of themselves as nerds and hippies because we are stereotypically more liberal and "smarter" than many other schools. It just kind of of comes with the territory. I call myself a hippie all the time- my point is that not all of us are sitting in trees/smoking on the street corner all day, which is what people think of when we mention the word "hippie."</p>
<p>@afruff23</p>
<p><a href="http://drugwarfacts.org/comparecht.gif%5B/url%5D">http://drugwarfacts.org/comparecht.gif</a></p>
<p>If you attend Berkeley, I hope you keep an open mind to new opinions and ideas. You have to realize there was a period in time called prohibition, and it did more harm than good. The same can be said about the war on drugs, and I hope you realize some of the brightest minds have smoked marijuana and they didn't become "addicted" e.g Carl Sagan, Norman Mailer, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon, Steven King and so on. In fact, Sagan:</p>
<p>"... started smoking regularly in the 1960s and Dragons of Eden -- which won the Pulitzer -- "was obviously written under the inspiration of marijuana."</p>
<pre><code>"He believed the drug enhanced his creativity and insights. His closest friend of three decades, Harvard psychiatry professor Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a leading advocate of the decriminalization of marijuana, recalls an incident in the 1980s when one of his California admirers mailed him, unsolicited, some unusually high-quality pot. Grinspoon shared the joints with Sagan and his wife, Anne Druyan. Afterward, Sagan said, "Lester, I know you've only got one left, but could I have it? I've got serious work to do tomorrow and I could really use it."
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<p>In case you don't know who Carl Sagan is, he is the late astronomer and biologist ... right up there with Stephen Hawking. Al Gore took his class at Princeton and you can see him referenced in "An Inconvenient Truth".</p>
<p>I didn't even mention the environmental benefits of hemp - non thc-cannabis - and how it can lead us toward a sustainable future.</p>
<p>i hope there's a lot of potheads.</p>