and think the way I might feel about someone smoking weed around my kids is on me, and is a product of culture, more than logic.
I think that's it. WHen you're raised with something being taboo/illegal and have had it drilled into your head to "just say no," or if you didn't have Nancy and Arnold around to tell you that, you had DARE, where it was essentially scared straight, the imprinting is strong.
This is how they get the mules for the cartels.