Originally Posted by
vashti 
Well, I am from California, and out here we only shrug off people who have experimented with drugs if they are somehow more enlightened than the rest of the world because they got high. I mean, we've even had presidents and presidential nominees that have gotten high. It isn't the least bit remarkable.
Good point. But accepting the fact other people have experimented or do drugs isn't the same as understanding why someone people made those choices, for what reasons, and the fact that they aren't automatically
bad people for doing so. They can still hold themselves and most often in my experience do hold themselves above others for the choices they know or feel they know that they made in their life. There's no way to force people to accept others, and no way to make people realize that no, they AREN'T better 'just because' this or that.
I was regarding to most people, and unless there's some kind of conspiracy-type explanation for why the drug war is still going on or why this or that type of substance is still illegal, then most people do in fact hold themselves above others and in fact feel other people should be PUNISHED, sent to jail, fined, arrested etc. for the things they chose for one reason or another to put 'this' in their body.
See what I'm saying?