Drugs of one kind or another have never been unpopular. So yes, it is hard to believe.

I guess I'm primed to believe it, because I'm a teetotaler who's never done drugs and never drank a bit of alcohol in my entire life. I'd like to believe that the younger generations are more like me. Of course, I'm just one data point, and a millennial so not even the article's subject demographic.

The stories of what acid did to Syd Barrett are vastly exaggerated.

Maybe you don't, but, speaking for myself 20 years ago, some people do.