strangenstein wrote:
Now for the bad: the parents are still smoking pot? Grow up. 

My feeling is that the creators and producers of this film included this because they were doing exactly that. Remember, these people just missed the sixties and came of age in the early seventies (plus the measure of success they had probably opened the door to drug use.)

"There is a lot of money tied up in this film and people expect to hear a boom when something blows up, so I'll give them a boom."

George Lucas as quoted by Harlan Ellison's WATCHING