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I pledged and was initiated at UGA, and later re-affiliated at U. Texas.
Pot is a strange thing. I have no use for it, and I certainly did my part to keep it out of the house. I even tried to blackball a pledge brother over it (he missed grades for initiation with our class and we tried to get rid of him that following quarter.)
It is my experience that the pot smokers/drug users in even the best fraternities are in a subculture of their own. Pot is much stronger at UGA than at Texas, and in my pledge class we had 4 regular smokers. 3 of them dropped out before pledgeship was over (and all 3 of them also failed out of Georgia within a year.) The 4th did finally get in, but a lot of us fought it.
But most of the regular pot smokers were outside the scope of existence of fraternity activities. Ladies from the better sororities certainly didn't want to associate with them, and drug-free actives like me certainly didn't want them around at social events.
I have no idea how ASU works, but your best bet is to ask around and see what the local scene is. At Georgia there are two middle-tier fraternities that that are known for their drug use by the majority of members, but which also get decent sorority mixers. At U. Texas there are none.
Your mileage may vary.
But in the grand scheme of things I agree with the other posters. Those two Georgia Chapters are also noticeable for their lack of active junior and senior members- pledges and sophomores compose the majority of the active membership. This is because so many of them dropped out of the frat (and college) before finishing because drugs were all they cared about.
Coming into the college life with hard drugs as a part of your life is a good way to radically decrease your odds of moving on in life. And frankly, if a fraternity does not help prepare you for life after graduation, what good is the investment of time and money?
I sure had my fun times as an active Greek- I'll stack up my good stories against anyone else's any day, but the overall experience prepared me for life beyond. I don't see how a drug-oriented house could provide that.
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