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Beginner’s Guide to Growing Marijuana
This is a guide that I pulled off the net that puts everything in plain and simple English, and doesn’t go to deep into
advanced botany and gardening. I find this one to be the best guide out there.
Indoor Marijuana Cultivation
Introduction
Growing marijuana indoors is fast becoming an American Pastime. The reasons are varied. With the increased
interest and experimentation in houseplant cultivation, it was inevitable that people would apply their knowledge of
plant care to growing marijuana. Many of those who occasionally like to light up a joint may find it difficult to
locate a source or are hesitant to deal with a perhaps unsavory element of society in procuring their grass. There is,
of course, the criminal aspect of buying or selling grass; Growing marijuana is just as illegal as buying, selling, or
smoking it, but growing is something you can do in the privacy of your own home without having to deal with
someone you don’t know or trust. The best reason for growing your own is the enjoyment you will get out of
watching those tiny little seeds you picked out of you stash sprout and become some of the most lovely and lush of
all house plants.
Anyone Can Do It
Even if you haven’t had any prior experience with growing plants in you home, you can have a successful crop of
marijuana by following the simple directions in this pamphlet. If you have had problems in the past with marijuana
cultivation, you may find the solutions in the following chapters. Growing a marijuana plant involves four basic
steps:
1. Get the seeds. If you don’t already have some, you can ask your friends to save you seeds out of any good grass
they may come across. You’ll find that lots of people already have a seed collection of some sort and are willing
to part with a few prime seeds in exchange for some of the finished product.
2. Germinate the seeds. You can simply drop a seed into moist soil, but by germinating the seeds first you can be
sure that the seed will indeed produce a plant. To germinate seeds, place a group of them between about six
moist paper towels, or in the pores of a moist sponge. Leave the towels or sponge moist but not soaking wet.
Some seeds will germinate in 24 hours while others may take several days or even a week.
3. Plant the sprouts. As soon as the seed cracks open and begin to sprout, place it on some moist soil and sprinkle a
little soil over the top of it.
4. Supply the plants with light. Fluorescent lights are the best. Hang the lights with two inches of the soil and after
the plants appear above the ground, continue to keep the lights with two inches of the plants. It is as easy as
that. If you follow those four steps you will grow a marijuana plant. To ensure prime quality and the highest
yield in the shortest time period, however, a few details are necessary.
Soil
Your prime concern, after choosing high quality seeds, is the soil. Use the best soil you can get. Scrimping on
the soil doesn’t pay off in the long run. If you use non-sterilized soil you will almost certainly find parasites in it,
probably after it is too late to transplant your marijuana. You can find excellent soil for sale at your local plant shop
or nursery, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, and even some grocery stores. The soil you use should have these properties for the
best possible results:
1. It should drain well. That is, it should have some sand in it and also some sponge rock or pearlite.
2. The pH should be between 6.5 and 7.5 since marijuana does not do well in acidic soil. High acidity in soil
encourages the plant to be predominantly male, an undesirable trait.
3. The soil should also contain humus for retaining moisture and nutrients.
If you want to make your own soil mixture, you can use this recipe: Mix two parts moss with one part sand and one
part pearlite or sponge rock to each four gallons of soil. Test your soil for pH with litmus paper or with a soil testing
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"AFOAF grew some (Apollo) recently and got an indica phenotype that finished around 50 days, and a Durban
phenotype that took 60 days.
The indica phenotype is very resinous, clear high. Not racy nor paranoid. Dense buds, low odor.
The Durban phenotype Cannabis has a stronger high than pure Durban, very clear, very racy, even paranoid. Buds very
fluffy, and they flop over from their own weight. Definitely a creeper phenotype in the gene pool (Durban).
The mom of A-11 is Genius, an F2 of Jack Herer crossed to an unknown male (likely a Durban imho). The dad
of A-11 is Cinderella.
Genius expresses the NL and Skunk Cultivo Cannabis side of the gene pool. Cindy expresses the Durban and haze side.
imho, for the A-11 to have 2 phenotypes in the F1, one of which is fluffy, sweet, and floppy like Durban, means
that the Durban gene is in both Apollo and Cindy." - Zorro
“This strain may be the "Holy Grail". The result of painstakingly backcrossing a VERY RARE female to her male
progeny over 3 generations. This hybrid was specifically bred for indoor cultivation. Short statured & heavily
branched, this plant grows
Cannabis College LONG, dense colas with an EXTREMELY high flower/leaf ratio and OUTRAGEOUS resin
production. The breeder has observed a "giant leap" in potency with each progressive generation and, as
expected, Cinderella 99 has topped all previous results - her high is heavily influenced by Haze; clear, energetic
& devastatingly psychoactive. A plant with all of the above is rare enough, but Cinderella 99 finishes flowering
after a scant 50 days of 12/12! Above-average yields of crystal covered buds reeking of tropical fruit aromas can
be harvested every other month once a mother plant is selected and asexually propagated. One final accolade -
preliminary results from the breeder indicate Cinderella 99 will breed true..." -Brothers Grimm seedbank
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consistent strain, with very big differences among individual plants. By crossing Big Bud and Skunk #1, Green
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an explosive flowering trait and are extremely resinous. Very high yield.
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pattern superimposed on their individual uniqueness, we may hypothesize something to explain this
common pattern. This hypothesized something might be a common personality trait, belief system,
physical attribute, or, in terms of our interest a common state of consciousness. Particularly, if we know
that all the observed individuals ingested marijuana just before we began observing them, we will be
tempted to say that the common pattern of functioning we observe is the result of their all being in a
state of marijuana intoxication.
Note, however, that it is the empirically observed common pattern of functioning1] that is the crucial
defining operation of the state of consciousness; the fact that they had all ingested marijuana serves
secondarily to specify something we think to be a cause of the hypothesized state of consciousness.
What, then, are the properties of this hypothesized state of consciousness, marijuana intoxication?
How do we discover these properties?
Clearly the way to answer this is to give marijuana to a number of people and observe what is
common in their experience and behavior.
Unfortunately, the observation process is much more complex
and full of pitfalls than we would expect.
Much of our usual experience with the effects of drugs on consciousness misleads us into expecting
fairly simple relationships. If, for example, you give a strong dose of barbiturates or other sedatives to a
person, he almost always goes to sleep. Hence we describe the state of consciousness (or lack of it)
induced by barbiturates as a barbiturate-induced sleep. There is little variability across subjects, and our
observational process is simple.
With a psychoactive drug like marijuana, on the other hand, the variability across subjects is very
high, and the observation process itself may systematically bias
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the next section.
It may even turn out that different people might experience different states of
consciousness from using marijuana, that is, the observed patterns of experience and behavior fall into
several distinct patterns rather than a single pattern common to all individuals. We generally consider
alcohol intoxication, for example, as a single state, yet on a second thought there are clearly some
individuals who have very different experiences with alcohol from those the majority of us have. A drug
may thus stimulate a reorganization of functioning, but the nature of the new pattern may be determined
by factors other than the nature of the drug per se.
Let us consider in detail the question of why a given individual, taking marijuana (or any other
psychoactive drug, for that matter) at a particular time and place, might experience the particular things
that he does.
VARIABILITY OF DRUG-INDUCED STATES
Our common experience with many drugs inclines us to think along the line that "Drug A has effects
X,n common patterning of functioning in all of these people, a common
pattern superimposed on their individual uniqueness, we may hypothesize something to explain this
common pattern. This hypothesized something might be a common personality trait, belief system,
physical attribute, or, in terms of our interest a common state of consciousness. Particularly, if we know
that all the observed individuals ingested marijuana just before we began observing them, we will be
tempted to say that the common pattern of functioning we observe is the result of their all being in a
state of marijuana intoxication.
Note, however, that it is the empirically observed common pattern of functioning1] that is the crucial
defining operation of the state of consciousness; the fact that they had all ingested marijuana serves
secondarily to specify something we think to be a cause of the hypothesized state of consciousness.
What, then, are the properties of this hypothesized state of consciousness, marijuana intoxication?
How do we discover these properties?
Clearly the way to answer this is to give marijuana to a number of people and observe what is
common in their experience and behavior. Unfortunately, the observation process is much more complex
and full of pitfalls than we would expect.
Much of our usual experience with the effects of drugs on consciousness misleads us into expecting
fairly simple relationships. If, for example, you give a strong dose of barbiturates or other sedatives to a
person, he almost always goes to sleep. Hence we describe the state of consciousness (or lack of it)
induced by barbiturates as a barbiturate-induced sleep.
There is little variability across subjects, and our
observational process is simple.
With a psychoactive drug like marijuana, on the other hand, the variability across subjects is very
high, and the observation process itself may systematically bias what we observe, as will be detailed in
the next section. It may even turn out that different people might experience different states of
consciousness from using marijuana, that is, the observed patterns of experience and behavior fall into
several distinct patterns rather than a single pattern common to all individuals. We generally consider
alcohol intoxication, for example, as a single state, yet on a second thought there are clearly some
individuals who have very different experiences with alcohol from those the majority of us have. A drug
may thus stimulate a reorganization of functioning, but the nature of the new pattern may be determined
by factors other than the nature of the drug per se.
Let us consider in detail the question of why a given individual, taking marijuana (or any other
psychoactive drug, for that matter) at a particular time and place, might experience the particular things
that he does.
VARIABILITY OF DRUG-INDUCED STATES
Our common experience with many drugs inclines us to think along the line that "Drug A has effects
X,n common patterning of functioning in all of these people, a common
pattern superimposed on their individual uniqueness, we may hypothesize something to explain this
common pattern. This hypothesized something might be a common personality trait, belief system,
physical attribute, or, in terms of our interest a common state of consciousness. Particularly, if we know
that all the observed individuals ingested marijuana just before we began observing them, we will be
tempted to say that the common pattern of functioning we observe is the result of their all being in a
state of marijuana intoxication.
Note, however, that it is the empirically observed common pattern of functioning[1 that is the crucial
defining operation of the state of consciousness; the fact that they had all ingested marijuana serves
secondarily to specify something we think to be a cause of the hypothesized state of consciousness.
What, then, are the properties of this hypothesized state of consciousness, marijuana intoxication?
How do we discover these properties?
Clearly the way to answer this is to give marijuana to a number of people and observe what is
common in their experience and behavior. Unfortunately, the observation process is much more complex
and full of pitfalls than we would expect.
Much of our usual experience with the effects of drugs on consciousness misleads us into expecting
fairly simple relationships. If, for example, you give a strong dose of barbiturates or other sedatives to a
person, he almost always goes to sleep. Hence we describe the state of consciousness (or lack of it)
induced by barbiturates as a barbiturate-induced sleep. There is little variability across subjects, and our
observational process is simple.
With a psychoactive drug like marijuana, on the other hand, the variability across subjects is very
high, and the observation process itself may systematically bias what we observe, as will be detailed in
the next section.
It may even turn out that different people might experience different states of
consciousness from using marijuana, that is, the observed patterns of experience and behavior fall into
several distinct patterns rather than a single pattern common to all individuals. We generally consider
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may thus stimulate a reorganization of functioning, but the nature of the new pattern may be determined
by factors other than the nature of the drug per se.
Let us consider in detail the question of why a given individual, taking marijuana (or any other
psychoactive drug, for that matter) at a particular time and place, might experience the particular things
that he does.
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pattern superimposed on their individual uniqueness, we may hypothesize something to explain this
common pattern. This hypothesized something might be a common personality trait, belief system,
physical attribute, or, in terms of our interest a common state of consciousness. Particularly, if we know
that all the observed individuals ingested marijuana just before we began observing them, we will be
tempted to say that the common pattern of functioning we observe is the result of their all being in a
state of marijuana intoxication.
Note, however, that it is the empirically observed common pattern of functioning1 that is the crucial
defining operation of the state of consciousness; the fact that they had all ingested marijuana serves
secondarily to specify something we think to be a cause of the hypothesized state of consciousness.
What, then, are the properties of this hypothesized state of consciousness, marijuana intoxication?
How do we discover these properties?
Clearly the way to answer this is to give marijuana to a number of people and observe what is
common in their experience and behavior.
Unfortunately, the observation process is much more complex
and full of pitfalls than we would expect.
Much of our usual experience with the effects of drugs on consciousness misleads us into expecting
fairly simple relationships. If, for example, you give a strong dose of barbiturates or other sedatives to a
person, he almost always goes to sleep. Hence we describe the state of consciousness (or lack of it)
induced by barbiturates as a barbiturate-induced sleep. There is little variability across subjects, and our
observational process is simple.
With a psychoactive drug like marijuana, on the other hand, the variability across subjects is very
high, and the observation process itself may systematically bias what we observe, as will be detailed in
the next section. It may even turn out that different people might experience different states of
consciousness from using marijuana, that is, the observed patterns of experience and behavior fall into
several distinct patterns rather than a single pattern common to all individuals. We generally consider
alcohol intoxication, for example, as a single state, yet on a second thought there are clearly some
individuals who have very different experiences with alcohol from those the majority of us have. A drug
may thus stimulate a reorganization of functioning, but the nature of the new pattern may be determined
by factors other than the nature of the drug per se.
Let us consider in detail the question of why a given individual, taking marijuana (or any other
psychoactive drug, for that matter) at a particular time and place, might experience the particular things
that he does.
VARIABILITY OF DRUG-INDUCED STATES
Our common experience with many drugs inclines us to think along the line that "Drug A has effects
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“BC Big Bud is a stabilized 65% indica/35% sativa, the Dutch Big Bud (Sensi) is all indica. BC Big Bud has
tremendous resin, its the crystally bud on the cover of the Cannabis Culture #18 (Steve Kubby header), and a
citrusy scent. Usually only available in clone, (hence the crosses, its usually the female in those Romulan x BC
Big Bud or Mikado x BC Big Bud), it is now available in seed (pure) at $50 CN/$40 US for 10 seeds. Giant seeds,
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Big Bud or Mikado x BC Big Bud), it is now available in seed (pure) at $50 CN/$40 US for 10 seeds. Giant seeds,
largest I have (not that that information has meaning, seed size has no relevance despite what mythology
persists about them). Very nice smoke, the Dutch Big Bud can be a good yielder like BC Big Bud but the high is
superior in the BC Big Bud version. The leaves in the BC Big Bud variety are more sativa like.” – Marc Emery
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days. I have to say that this is some of the best smoke of all time for me! Looks white in the bag slow clean
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expected sinsemilla, but it had about 10 seeds so I assume she's an F2 JH. Her characteristics were so fine I
wanted to create seeds that would "replicate" this plant. She has the KILLER Haze-influenced high with the most
DELICIOUS pineapple/evil scent, 50 day maturation in 12/12, and incredible resin production, doesn’t stretch -
yet clearly Sativa-dominant! Last but not least: Never a hint of hermaphrodism after 2 years of cloning & many
different styles of grow. Winner of several harvest festivals, and "High Times" Cannabis Cup. Skunk #1 (75% Sativa, 25% Indica) was
originally a cross between 25% Afghani, 25% Mexican Acapulco Gold and 50% Colombian Gold. Inbred since
1978, now a stabilized homogeneous strain. Blooms with long, thick buds, varying in color from light green to
golden. Very high flower to leaf ratio. Soft and sweet aroma and a very strong "up" high. Excellent variety for
indoor growing or greenhouse with darkening system. Very high yields. Easy to manicure. This variety serves as
a standard against which others can be measured.
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minutes and look around to see if you can see anything. If you see
anything suspicious, or anything following you leave the bag and go to
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town (not home - leave that until the situation is under control again).
If things look okay, drive back to where you left your bag. Pick up your
bag and put it in the boot or trunk of the car. Drive home carefully.
Some people can get away with guerrilla farming lots of pot.
This is commercial growing on a risky scale but can still be found in
various parts of the world where cannabis is still banned. The growers
usually live deep in the forest miles away from the nearest town. They
may spend up to 7 months out there on their own, cultivating the crop.
Recent grow busts by the police have identified some several tons of
bud being grown by as little as 3 people living squat in some unknown
region of British Colombia.
There is not much more to outdoor growing than this. Most of
the elements that you need to complete your outdoor grow are in the
indoor growing chapter of this book. Read through this and it should
give you ideas about how to treat your outdoor grow patch.
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Chapter 5
THE INDOOR GROWING OF CANNABIS
There are many ways to grow your cannabis plant indoors.
The two core methods of indoor growing are soil growing and
hydroponics. There is a separate chapter for hydroponics, and so this
chapter will deal with soil growing.
Figure 5.1 - Indoor Grow room. Picture by RealHigh.
There are many ways to grow an indoor soil garden. The most
common indoor set-ups are:
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1. Bench growing,
2. SOG growing,
3. ScrOG growing
4. Cabinet growing.
We will discuss these methods in a moment but let us first see what
they all have in common.
LIGHTS
Lights come in all shapes, sizes, wattage and type. A full
indoor grow lighting kit should contain the following items. Bulb,
reflector, ballast, timer and electrical inputs/outputs.
Figure 5.2 - Regular HID Bulbs.
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Figure 5.3 - A reflector with bulb and ballast.
Figure 5.4 - This is a picture of a timer.
Most lighting kits are open, meaning that no hood or glass
will cover the bulb. It hangs directly under the reflector. The bulb is
fixed into a socket that is attached to the inside of the reflector. That
socket is connected to the ballast. The ballast can be internal or
external. If external there will be a cord leading to the ballast from the
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bulb's socket. The ballast plugs into a domestic light socket like the
one you have in your home. Some ballast types even have a built-in
timer.
When buying a lighting system it is recommend that you buy
a complete system and an extra bulb. Check to make sure that the
lighting system meets safety regulations and has some sort of
guarantee with it.
Figure 5.5 - This is an example of what an external ballast looks like.
You might be able to see t I created a 'goblet' effect outwards around the top of the wire-tube, and this stopped the damage. Having been eaten back to about 18" in early
July, the plants reached about 6' by week-1 Oct. During the whole summer, there was no single week that they
were not rained on VERY heavily, and for the last month of their lives they were in perpetual cloud/100%
moisture. Only one plant showed any signs of mold (and this one showed only small patches)- which I was
extremely pleased with. owing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker. In fact, there is often a certain degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual. "At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't. "I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
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disappointed," she added. "I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
... the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure....
... being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and the recognition of these symptoms and their connection
by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience.
Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.[8]
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques. Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience. Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
Tweowing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker.
In fact, there is often a certain degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual. "At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't. "I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
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disappointed," she added. "I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
... the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure....
... being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and
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by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience.
Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.8]
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques. Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience.
Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
Tweowing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker. In fact, there is often a certain degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual. "At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't. "I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
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disappointed," she added. "I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
... the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure....
... being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and the recognition of these symptoms and their connection
by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience. Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.[8
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques. Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience. Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
Tweowing awareness that many seemingly respectable individuals also smoke marijuana:
"After being turned on, I realized that many straight types smoke, too. It's sort of like
when a virgin has just been deflowered; she realizes that others must also be nonvirgins,
too, after having experienced it herself," said a twenty-two-year-old law school student, a
weekly smoker. In fact, there is often a certain degree of disappointment in the experience.
The experience has been billed as bizarre, beautiful, frightening, orgiastic, but either pro
or con, the descriptions are invariably unusual.
"At first I thought it would be the
passageway into heaven," a young man of Catholic parentage told me, somewhat
disenchanted that it wasn't.
"I expected a fantastic change," said a twenty-three-year-old
woman writer about her experience of being turned on in a cafe in Tangiers; "I was
(11 of 15)4/15/2004 1:05:28 AM
The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 6
disappointed," she added. "I was scared shit," a student in pharmacy told me about an
experience six years earlier.
Aside from the expectation that the high would be much more spectacular, some of the
disappointment stems from the fact that many initiates do not become high the first time
that they smoke, or at least do not recognize it. Marijuana's effect is subtle, and is, as I
have stated, quite dependent on the learning process. In Becker's words,
... the new user may not get high and thus not form a conception of the drug
as something which can be used for pleasure.
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being high consists of... the presence of symptoms caused by
marijuana use and the recognition of these symptoms and their connection
by the user with his use of the drug. It is not enough, that is, that the effects
alone be present; alone, they do not automatically provide the experience of
being high. The user must be able to point them out to himself and
consciously connect them with having smoked marihuana before he can
have this experience. Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
he considers that the drug has had no effect on him.8
It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
smoked once or even a dozen times. A small proportion of individuals seem almost
incapable of attaining a high, at least using conventional smoking techniques. Whether
this is physiological or psychological, it is impossible at this point to determine. Many of
these individuals have been socialized into the subculture, know the proper techniques and
what to expect from them, have seen others enjoying pot, and yet never seem to cross the
threshold of becoming high. More commonly, however, the reason for the lack of
attainment of the high is inexperience. Among our respondents, 41 percent said that they
did not become high the first time and 13 percent said that they weren't sure whether or
not they were high. The attainment of the high, however, usually comes with experience.
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at the study of a cross-section of all individuals who have tried
marijuana, or even who smoke it regularly, however regularly might be defined, will yield
very few who are high all of the time, or even more than a few hours each evening. The
facts do not support the stoned model. When the user smokes marijuana he does, indeed,
become high, or stoned. And if one observed his behavior during this period, he is often
measurably less active than normally. But to say that it is the ultimate goal of a large
proportion of users to seek this state most of the time is to distort the facts. It is only
because researchers cannot understand why anyone would want to become high in the first
place that they find it necessary to attach the label "psychological addiction" or
"habituation" to his behavior and motives. If they found use of the substance acceptable,
they would not emit this labeling behavior.
It is clear that another model is necessary. And this model, I propose, is the recreational
model. It fits the facts more faithfully than any of the previously mentioned models. And
it contains none of the moral judgments that the others are clearly guilty of. The
recreational model takes issue with these perspectives. Essential to the recreational
conception of marijuana use are the following elements: (1) it is used freely,
noncompulsively; (2) it is smoked episodically—once or several times a week or so on the
average; (3) it is experienced as pleasurable by the participants; (4) it is used in
conjunction with (and not a replacement for) other enjoyable activities; (5) its impact on
one's life is relatively superficial; (6) its use results in relatively little harm to the
individual; and (7) its use is highly social. By adopting the recreational perspective toward
marijuana use, I do not wish to imply that everyone who has ever smoked marijuana may
be described in terms of this model, nor even that a majority of all users are typified by all
of these principles. It is, however, to say that this model presents a relatively accurate
summarization of the experiences of the characteristic user, that these traits are typically
found in marijuana use. In any case, the issue is an empirical one; if the model is
ineffective, then it must be discarded. In my own research, however, the recreational
model yielded far more insights and more accurately described the reality I investigated
than did any of the traditional models. I found that most users smoke marijuana
recreationally, and I believe that any study investigating a fairly representative group of
smokers will support the same generalization. It is possible, of course, to uncover some
individuals who are motivated by compulsive forces and experience overwhelmingly
unpleasant reactions. A study based on users who visit psychiatrists will, naturally be far
more likely to be composed of users whose experiences differ from the normal everyday
user's, and therefore cannot be taken Demuth, and W
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