Prudish?

Last night I was having drinks with a friend. While we were talking, a potential guy in my friend's life was brought up. I tried to dissuade her from him. She asked me why, and I responded that he was a big pot head. At that point she said she didn't care and that not everyone feels the way I do about pot.

This morning I got to thinking. Am I a pot prude? In all honesty, none of my friends have ever been pot heads (as far as I know). I'm not saying I don't have friends who smoke pot. I will say that I have never smoked pot. I don't have a desire to do it. I don't think that makes me a prude, though.

But is my desire to stay away from people who constantly smoke pot really unrealistic in this day and age?

I don't know why people need to smoke pot all the time. What are they trying to escape. I think I would be just as uncomfortable with people who drank all the time. We drink a lot in law school, but not all the time. I can't understand why anyone would need something to take them away from life all the time.

Should I get over this? Should I just concede that a person who is always smoking pot is not necessarily a waste?

I'd like to think not. I'd like to think that as people get older, they don't feel the need to escape life so much and that people want to be more responsible. I'd like to think that responsibility does not equal pot head. I'd like to think I'm not a pot prude.