In case it's not been pointed out - Fight On
All food, water, things consumed by the human body are "Drugs" - all of them (they all have a chemical base), the body changes the "Chemical Make Up" of them with it's own "Drugs/Chemicals" so that the body can use them for whatever purpose they were intended for. Some, like "Cocaine, Heroine, metaphetamies, etc... are obviously bad for the human body when abused - unless administered for "Surgery" or the proper uses.
Why are you always taking the side that people are doing something bad or cheating the "True nature of hiking" or "Sporting" activities, just because you "Choose not to enjoy them". If you want people to know you are a "Purest", just say so? For that matter don't eat any food, don't wear any clothing, don't put on a backpack, don't use hiking poles, don't use boots, don't go off the trail, don't ever wonder into private property, don't do anything but go on the "Blog Site" and badger what others are doing?
Growing up there was this saying that most people respected - "If you don't have something nice to say about someone, don't say it"!
If you don't agree with something that's fine, just state the reason why that doesn't work for you, not why others are "Wrong for Doing it"
Most of the people here are looking for "Help" with getting to the great outdoors, doing it safely, reporting what great experiences they have had on a particular hike, who they ran into, what things to look out for, what conditions that have changed, where they can get permits, park, enter the wilderness, etc... etc... ect... if they wanted to debate every last thing they do before, during and after their hikes they would make a "Blog site for HIKING POLITICIANS"
Please by all means "Start your own website" - call it - "Hiking Purest, that only do what I think is right, of Los Angeles" I'm sure it will get an extensive amount of participation, and not much hiking will be done.
Sorry in advance for bagging, but it get's old reading the same banter on every post.