Did you watch Raw this week? Did you see the end of the show, specifically? People potentially tuning in to see the show are greeted by shit like that each and every week, and it does far more damage than hearing that their champ smokes reefer. The latter you only hear about if you look through the proper channels (this site, others like it, the local area's news), the former you can experience every week by watching their show. The company was reluctant to let RVD be a top guy and one slip-up was all they needed to justify moving him out of the picture and taking away the #1 star of a promotion that only a minority of WWE management wants to see succeed in the first place. Everyone tries to make this into a drug argument, but that's not what the issue was. WWE is already a complete and utter joke to the public in the first place, and very little outside of Vince raping and murdering his whole family could make the perception of the company worse.