So Josh Howard Smokes Weed

Listening to Mike Tirico's explanation of Josh Howard's interview (where he admitted to smoking weed a few times in the off-season) reminded me of a late 80's anti-drug commercial. It it possible that smoking marijuana is still perceived in our society in a way that requires litanies of explanations and apologies? For some reason, I thought we were more advanced about the way we looked at drug users -Tirico really took me back to the anti-drug stone age.