Rules desired by a company are no more authoritarian than any other rules set for your employees and customers within your place of business. If you do not like them, do not shop there or accept employment.
Preventing drug addiction is not a poor goal. They just went about it the same way they did alcohol prohibition, which didn't work either.
I did not advocate locking up people who do not mask, against company rules, which is more toward the topic of the thread, than drug prohibition, as "Karen" didn't take off the mask to toke up. I just advocate they be controlled whether they like it or not for the duration in which they choose to use the flight service.
Rules can be good or bad, but the point is that in a democratic republic, rights must always have superiority over arbitrary rules.
Arbitrary rules are how you get racially divided drinking fountains, and are illegal in most cases.
Arbitrary rules not based on science, are illegal and criminal, that should be fought against.
Preventing drug addiction is a great goal, but is one that can NOT POSSIBLY be accomplished by police, courts, or prisons.
Obviously police, courts, and prisons greatly increase drug addition, drug profits, government profits, loss of freedom, arbitrary edicts, etc.
Drug addiction is a medical problem easily taken care of by the medical community.
Masks on a long plane flight are totally and completely ridiculous.
They can not possibly help once saliva has time to dry out.
So are just as silly as wearing underwear on the outside.
There is ZERO science to it.
Ask anyone who knows the science.