So true. Popular opinion is totally warped.
Take for instance, some dude who talks about smoking weed in public. All he's doing is getting stoned and sedate, yet some reason, he gets branded a drug addict and a lowlife.
Now imagine some moronic douchebags and bimbos who go out on a Saturday night, get blasted off their asses, and wake up with a hangover from hell. If they say something like this on scocial media:
"OMG, i got so drunk last nite, I threw up EVERYWRE!!! Oh and I think I cought herpys or something",
Nothing would change. They would still get respect, be accepted by all their friends, and still have their jobs.
(don't get me started on the evils of "drug testing").
Friends, we live in a crazy, crazy world.
I see the point you are trying to make here, but from my perspective I disagree. I think the pothead that smokes weed in public and brags about it is an idiot (Just like the wanna be whoever that gets shitfaced drunk the night/day before and boasts about it the next day), it serves no purpose other than to get attention, which speaks to
@EQ's point more than anything. I have nothing against mj and personally indulge in it from time to time. Do I go around boasting about it like an idiot? No, I keep it to myself, I have nothing to prove and while I could careless what anyone thinks, it's still common sense to me that mj, though somewhat socially acceptable, is still illegal on a federal level, so until otherwise, I will do the smart thing, and keep it at home, until the law says otherwise or I chose to move on, the truth for me anyways, is that along with drinking alcohol, I am finding less and less desire to smoke mj, because kava is a much better alternative for me and my well being and most important, my peace of mind, which is the reason I started consuming kava in the first place.
To the point of the OP, social media in the last 15 years have opened up the door for good and bad, it's great to have that level of connection and ability to communicate on such an impressive platform. Having said that, the unfortunate reality is that when it comes to social media, 85% of the population act like idiots, with the illusion that because "it is the internet and anonymous" people glorify the dumbest shit! Look at Facebook and twitter as an example, 90% of the content is totally useless information, from people that have gotten used to this way of communicating instead of stepping out the door and going out for a walk, meeting someone in person, having a conversation face to face. I am a child of the 80's and back then, there was that one phone line at home, there was no internet no social media, no smartphones or wireless phones (until the brick). Life was simpler, hanging out with your friends, meant you had to get on your bike or skate board and go to their house. I miss those days and often look back with fond memories of a simpler time.
