> The pot smoker was a few feet from me in an informal > conference late one evening. I don't think anyone > complained that pot was smoked at all. They compl

> The pot smoker was a few feet from me in an informal > conference late one evening. I don't think anyone > complained that pot was smoked at all. They complained that > it was smoked inside a crowded room. I was there too. They were being obnoxious by stinking up the place (it didn't help that they got louder & less funny, i.e. more obnoxious, through the evening), and that is what got people's attention. Anything that happens on the official premises of a professional, heavily sponsored and highly scrutinized conference is to some extent the responsibility of the organizers. They _had_ to do something.