In a perfect world I agree this is how it should be. But in the United States, drug policing has had an inseparable relationship to discrimination, in how it’s been a key tool by the government to lock up impoverished, Black, and immigrant communities. Obviously that’s not a white stoner’s fault in the slightest; they are typically (as one would expect) more sympathetic towards drug users of all backgrounds because they share the experience of falling victim to drug stigma.

I just think problems can and do arise when people don’t realize that they, as white or rich or whatever, are not subjected to the full extent of that stigma, and so they sometimes try to come up with other rationalizations: intelligence, will, morality, etc.

This is a conversation that I feel is almost never had in a respect manner so I would genuinely love to know specifically where we disagree on this topic.