The stigma that has long hung over marijuana in this country is slowly being Febrezed away. Americans have quietly relaxed their attitudes toward pot as more people have gained access for legal, recreational use. Weed is a cash crop in Colorado and Washington, just like corn or hay. In the places where it hasn’t been legalized or decriminalized—perhaps your fair state is next!—Americans appear far more concerned about crucial issues like education and inequality than someone sparking a joint in their backyard.

Among the many, many changes this societal shift has brought about: our most decorated pot smokers—those baby-boomers who lived through the halcyon Summer of Love and the fog that followed—are now indulging in the open and quasi-open like they haven’t been allowed to since Nixon was in office. Despite what you might think, Mom and Dad didn’t stop getting high when kids came into the picture. A Midwestern woman in her 60s, who agreed to talk under the condition of anonymity, was quick to dispel the notion that parents got out the game just because of some bratty kid under their roof.

“What do you mean start smoking weed?” she said, when I foolishly asked about a renewed enthusiasm for ganja. “We never quit.”

According to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, 6.6 percent of Americans age 55 to 59 got high in 2013, up from 1.6 percent in 2002. Adults age 60 to 64 burning down nearly doubled from 2.4 percent in 2002 to 4.7 percent in 2013.

And so, it seems that with each passing legislative season, a new crop of millennials are confronting a question most ponderous: Where do my parents get their weed? It’s a funny thing to consider, your parents taking part in that most clammy-handed of transactions, but a healthy percentage of them most certainly are. VF.com set out to discover how our parents score now.

In Colorado, where weed was legalized for recreational use last year, the dispensary owners I spoke with said they saw an uptick in baby-boomer customers when the state shifted from medicinal marijuana to recreational. Why, you might ask? Boomers’ distrust of authority wasn’t softened by mortgages and 401(k)s—they still resent The Man.

“When we were medicinal, you had to go to a doctor and get a recommendation and then your name was on a list,” Alison Ledden, marketing director at The Farm, a dispensary in Boulder, said. “I think it kept a lot of baby-boomers away. There’s a little bit more of a conspiracy theory. My name is going to be on the list! And what if somehow, someway that list comes out and then my job finds out. The second that we became ‘adult use,’ it’s almost like the baby-boomers came out of the woodwork.”

I ran into the same fears when I started calling baby-boomers I suspected liked to get high. They’d talk to me, but vehemently refused to go on the record, like they were some high-level arms dealer talking to a source on a remote airstrip in Eastern Europe. “We all grew up with this being illegal and it was something reprobates did,” one boomer told me. “For people like us, we still can’t be put in a national magazine that we get high.”

But, man, do they like to puff trees! “Everywhere we go on vacation, we always seem to score some pot,” a 60-something Michigan woman we’ll call Jane told VF.com. “It’s pretty easy to get for something that isn’t legal.” It’s even easier to procure in Colorado, where it’s part of the tourist landscape—a mid-60s woman from Ohio told us she stocks up on weed when she goes skiing and flies home with her stash. And, according to Ledden, the boomers’ steady income and penchant for pot are a dispensary’s dream.