If you'd seen some of then negative mental effects cannabis can have on some people you wouldn't be so quick to tell everyone how soft of a drug it is.
Yes but cannabis doesn't produce the serious long term neurological changes cocaine does after years of use. It doesn't result in serious physical dependence like heroin or even opium. It doesn't kill with overdose like many other drugs, nor does it result in massive changes in serotonin as does MDMA, or large and potentially permanent dopamine deficiencies like meth and similar drugs.
Sure it's bad to smoke anything, and even small amounts of cannabis can affect
some people adversly. Yes, these people should avoid using cannabis, but that hardly makes it a hard drug. There's very few long term users of other drugs that don't display some physiological or psycholocgical changes, yet there's many regular cannabis users that have few to no long term problems.
I could go on about the therapeutic benefits of cannabis; such as cannabidiol being a potent antitumor substance, and how THC cools certain areas of the brain, making stroke less likely or severity of stroke reduced..... but this is all available online if you'd like a more objective view.
The point is she wasn't telling people not to smoke at all, but not to smoke in HER show or around her. It's no different than someone who doesn't want you banging heroin in front of them, it doesn't matter if the drug is 'hard' or 'soft' if it is enough of a trigger or even enough to annoy them you don't do it.
It's called personal management skills, something surely lacking from most Rehab courses I've looked at. If and when you're free from the clutches of any drug, then being around other users should be no problem at all IMO. I've known countless, once serious users, who've successfully eliminated their drug use altogether without rehab, and these people generally have no problems being around those who use. It's a bloody poor outcome if virtually every user graduating Rehab school comes out with a "don't do it near me, the temptation is too much" attitude. Something isn't working right. It leaves such people far more vulnerable to falling back into old ways. IMHO It's about learning to appreciate the value in being free of the effects of drugs, rather than continuing to see their past substance of choice as an eternal tempatation.
For those smoking a J, could it be that they were all there merely to accompany someone else, and this was the only way they could stand to listen to her poor excuse for pop music? I ask because I had to do a similar thing many years ago when a girlfirend wanted to see Dean Friedman.....I might never have made it out alive otherwise
