To me, the way it seemed like is what I image being gay in the 50's would have been like in that there was so much negative public myth about it but no one actually knew what it looked like. So you could be out in the open and not be discrete and unless someone was in the know, which was extremely rare, then they would never know. Just like being gay in the 50's, penalties are extremely high for being caught. For example trafficking can result is execution. As an antidote, I once had a Chinese roommate express this extreme position by telling me that he would do anything for me except two things; murder someone or do drugs. With this said, I would roll J's around him all the time with out him having a clue. I suppose he assumed I was just rolling cigs. Yeah, I kind of feel bad about that in retrospect. Oh and the quality of product was horrible, absolutely horrible with the rare exceptions.