I agree that it's irrelevant and it's just them trying to look like they are like everyone else but personally I think at 30 you should have more sense, particularly if you're looking to be a politician.
Some people grow up terribly young! Its rather sad actually, I am touching 60 and am still quite capable of doing something daft and/or outrageous should the opportunity arise.
(Mind, I do have a degree of caution. I might well try snorting a bit of Coke (Something I have never done thus far) in a controlled environment with people I know and trust. I would never in a million years stuff some anonymous powder of unknown provenance obtained from a guy in a hood on a street corner up my nose or anywhere else for that matter!)
Whose opinion would you respect the more.
#1 "I have taken drugs in the past and on the basis of my personal experience, I maintain that they should remain prohibited"
#2 "I have never taken drugs because drugs are bad, and if i did i didn't inhale"
And another question.
Should Ted Heath (Not somebody I am any great fan of mind. Its his fault we are in the mess we are in now after all) have been prevented from becoming PM (and indeed chucked out of parliament altogether along with all the other poofs) on the grounds that prior to the sexual offenses act 1964, they would all have been sex criminals who had also broken the law??