Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Acceptance of Vices

Every place, it seems, has its own acceptance of a certain vice.  Growing up in Massachusetts, I think the socially accepted vice was real hard-core drinking.  In Washington, DC, it is nerdy social ineptitude.  In San Francisco, it's marijuana use.  In Israel, it was smoking.  And here in Los Angeles, I think it is unfortunately, the use of any controlled substance. 

I witnessed the behavior yesterday of someone who was obviously under the influence of something.  And I realized just how socially acceptable it seems to be here.  San Francisco was different.  There, of course, all kinds of drugs were (and still are) done.  But the only one that was socially acceptable was pot.  Here, it is a different scenario, unfortunately.

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