Wow. I love this. It sums up how I see the pointless war on drugs, basically. Sure, if somebody is addicted to a substance that is making them do harmful things to other people then they should be removed from that situation until healed. But two men smoking pot and telling jokes, being met with such a ridiculous response? Silly hypocritical action, and doesn't work.

If our law was able to simply punish those who hurt others, and let everybody else be, it would be a better law. Instead, the law makers rebel against their own rules, telling us: do as we say, not as we do.

I really like that you brought this down to the point you were making by drawing attention to the assumptions we were making to rationalise the behaviour in the stories.

Well done.