Seriously, if you're a celeb over there and caught smoking a joint, your career is basically over.
Even the infamously prudish U.S. is more accepting of it.
I'm guessing it's a leftover of U.S, imperialism, like how all their porn is still censored.
You know there are other countries way more conservative than the USA right?
Your talking about a country that still has an emperor and hasn't had a empire in a long ass time.
In India at least weed was more accepted in the past when there were kings as shit.