Not really. I read that as moral censoriousness combined with patriarchal idiocy and class bias. It's people who think they have superior morals thinking "lesser" people have deficient morals.

This is people who think they are smart assuming that anything they don't understand is dumb. So I suppose the common thread is ego and false pride leading one to underestimate others.

Tobacco, alcohol, and pharma lobbies combined === a lot of cash. What's funny to me is that they chose prohibition instead of taking advantage of how much people want it and giving the government a cut like they do with all their other products.

You're forgetting prison lobbies. But it's a lot easier to grow your own cannabis than your own Xanax.