I'm a cab driver and for some reason everyone thinks we're all a bunch of drug dealers. It's not just potheads.
I had a couple of meth heads in my cab. Both wore shades and the guy kept photographing every vehicle that went buy with tinted glass. He was convinced they were surveillance vehicles. He went through a list of initials half of which I'd never heard of (cid,gbi,dea, atf, mp, etc. you get the picture) and then told me that if I was I had to tell him. I told him I was a fucking cab driver but if I were related to law enforcement I wouldn't tell him nor would the law require that I tell him.
Coke head went through the whole rigamarole before I said essentially the same thing to him.
Another example of just how bad believing word of mouth bullshit can be.... Just the other night a friend hooked me up with a doob since I'm abstaining from buying my own stash to get the grow going, well I offered some freebie weilii and we commenced to talking about tripping. Course somehow the topic got on just what acid might do to a person and he commenced to tell me about a guy who had a bad trip and....course I interrupted him here and said "Let me guess, he's actually in a mental institute thinking he's an orange or a glass of orange juice and you don't actually know the guy but rather a guy who know's the guy. " I told him it was a bullshit urban legend. He, of course confirmed the OJ thing and insisted he knew him. Yeah, I felt like an egotistical prick for calling it out but I just hate hearing all the bullshit.
The issue here is that we're uneducated concerning the most essential information needed to be responsible members of a democratic republic (I'm in USA). I'm blown away just how little law is covered in public schools here. Also, just finding information about the local law is difficult. I mean , I can't just look up the law online, I have to go to some local law library and police around here DO NOT KNOW THE LAW.
People aren't stupid just busy.
I'd also like to say that, yeah, that hippy flipping the devilsticks is likely fond of cannabis but from my experience in the atlanta area, you might be surprised to know that the 45 year old mercedes driving real estate agent is just as fond of the ganj as the hippy. Once my grow is going I sure as shit won't be selling to the hippy.