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( Or so the caption indicates. There is no indication of how the police detected marijuana intoxication. During the entire period when all of the enumerated crimes were committed, there was no known method for detecting the presence of marijuana in the human body. In some of the cases, clues were mentioned, but most of them omit references to the drug.) Sixty-nine cases are included, going back to the 1930S (in one case, back to 1921, before the existence of marijuana laws). A typical case might be "Smoked marijuana for years; held up three taxi-cabs," or "Negro, shot and killed while attempting to holdup grocer in Harlem; plea guilty." Only a glance back at the discussion of the enumerative method of reasoning illuminates the worth of this procedure. Another section of Munch's article is an enumeration of "references" which lists works, most of which assert the connection between marijuana and crime without empirical documentation. A table presents, supposedly, effects of marijuana on the human mind and body. Several of these effects have been empirically demonstrated to be false: hypoglycemia (decrease in blood sugar), a decrease in the rate of respiration, and mydriasis (marked dilation of the pupils), for instance. Other effects are merely asserted and are, by all known accounts, highly improbable: "chronic exposure produces brain lesions," "death by cardiac failure some individuals after l00 to 200 times therapeutic dose,"21] "hypersensitivity sensation of ants running over skin" (not one of my 200 respondents described this particular sensation), "diarrhea or constipation," etc. One wonders, after this inventory of effects, why anyone would ever try the drug; if one believed that these effects ever took place, the fact that millions of people in this country (17 of 28)4/15/2004 1:08:08 AM The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 9 have tried it would be puzzling. Another study commonly cited by police in an effort to demonstrate the criminal tenden experimenter interviewed the subject about his medical history, including dizziness, fainting spells, and so forth. A tray of drugs and medical instruments, labeled "Emergency Tray," was clearly visible in the background. No reference was made to it unless a subject asked about it, in which case he was told that this was one of the precautionary measures taken for the experiment and that he had nothing to worry about. Instructions for the four-hour experimental period, termed "sensory deprivation," were given. They included the fact that a physician was always available should anything untoward develop, and pointed out that if the subject couldn't take it, he could push a button, labeled "Emergency Alarm," to summon assistance. The subject then had his blood pressure and pulse taken to further reinforce the "medical" atmosphere and was asked to sign a form that released the sponsoring organization, all affiliated organizations, and their personnel from legal consequences of the experiment. The actual experimental treatment, spending four hours in a small, well-lighted, comfortably furnished room, had nothing to do with sensory deprivation. Except for the observation window through which the subject could be observed, it was essentially a normal room and all that happened to the subject was that there was no one to talk with for four hours. A second group, the control subjects, were greeted by the same experimenter but he wore ordinary business clothes and acted in a less officious manner. There was no "Emergency Tray" in the interview room, nor was a medical history taken. The subject was told he was a control subject for sensory deprivation studies. The procedures typical of such studies were described to him, such as white noise on earphones, translucent goggles to block out all patterned vision, soft beds to reduce touch sensations, and rules prohibiting physical movement. There was no "Emergency Alarm" button in the experimental room. Each control subject then spent four hours in the experimental room; experimental conditions were thus the same except for the demands. Both groups were interviewed after the experimental period and given various psychological tests. The experimental group showed a number of significant changes on the psychological tests typical of those found in sensory deprivation studies. Further, this group reported many more classical sensory deprivation effects than the control group, including more perceptual aberrations, feelings of intellectual dulling, unpleasant emotions, spatial disorientation, and restlessness. Thus many of the effects commonly attributed to a "powerful" treatment, sensory deprivation, can be obtained by the implicit demands in experimental instructions. I fear that the reader who is not himself a physician or psychologist (i.e., who accepts such experimental conditions as "normal") will find the above description of experimental conditions rather ludicrous. How c “Bank: Positronics Supplier: Jock Started with 10 seeds all germinated. One sprout was lagging far behind the others and it was put out of its misery. Ended up with 1 female, 5 males, and 3 herms. Again, like the rest of the Positronic stock grown out so far, these plants were close to identical in appearance. They looked very much like the NL x Shiva that also came from Posi. To bad it didn’t take after the NL x Shiva in all respects. The one female was not very impressive grown from seed and turned herm. The buzz was acceptable but it grew like chit. Very airy bud with little resin and a lot of leaf. 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Paper, as Stalin so cynically observed—and, indeed, put into practice—can be made to print anything. The studies most often cited to prove that marijuana causes crime are those by Munch ("Marihuana and Crime"), Wolff (Marihuana in Latin America), Gardikas ("Hashish and Crime"), an unpublished manuscript by Victor Vogel, and several works by the Indian Chopras. We will examine these reports. Half of Munch's eight-page article on marijuana and crime20] is taken up with enumeration of crimes committed, supposedly, under the influence of marijuana. ( Or so the caption indicates. There is no indication of how the police detected marijuana intoxication. During the entire period when all of the enumerated crimes were committed, there was no known method for detecting the presence of marijuana in the human body. In some of the cases, clues were mentioned, but most of them omit references to the drug.) Sixty-nine cases are included, going back to the 1930S (in one case, back to 1921, before the existence of marijuana laws). A typical case might be "Smoked marijuana for years; held up three taxi-cabs," or "Negro, shot and killed while attempting to holdup grocer in Harlem; plea guilty." Only a glance back at the discussion of the enumerative method of reasoning illuminates the worth of this procedure. Another section of Munch's article is an enumeration of "references" which lists works, most of which assert the connection between marijuana and crime without empirical documentation. A table presents, supposedly, effects of marijuana on the human mind and body. Several of these effects have been empirically demonstrated to be false: hypoglycemia (decrease in blood sugar), a decrease in the rate of respiration, and mydriasis (marked dilation of the pupils), for instance. 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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,
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have this experience. Otherwise, no matter what actual effects are produced,
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It is possible that the drug sometimes does not take effect on an individual who has
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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
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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
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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....
... 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....
... 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.
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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
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marijuana user appears to be Cheap Bongs more active socially than the nonuser. He has more friends
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than the nonuser—aesthetic appreciation and creation, political activism, and social
welfare, for instance. (Of course, some other human endeavors, such as traditional and
formal religious participation, are less often the object of marijuana users' interests.
)
The zero-sum notion assumes that the two realms, the straight and the stoned, are
antagonistic and incompatible, enjoyed by a wholly different and distinct personnel. In
reality, most potsmokers do not rob their straight life to pay their stoned existence. More
commonly, the two enrich each other. Thus, any model based on the assumption that by
using marijuana those activities which society values will typically or necessarily
deteriorate in the lives of users has to be faulty. In the average user, no such process takes
place. (It will, of course, be a relatively simple matter to uncover exceptions.
) The average
marijuana smoker utilizes his drug of choice as an adjunct and an enhancer of many of the
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The truly committed "head," the smoker who is high the whole day, day in
and day out, is a relative
We will, of course, be able to locate specific individuals who are, in fact, high a great proportion of their waking hours. But the difference between marijuana and any of the physiologically addicting drugs—including alcohol—in this respect is so great as to be a (6 of 9)4/15/2004 1:08:52 AM The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 12 difference of kind, and not simply a matter of degree. It is only because the medical profession views marijuana use by definition pathological and abnormal ("abuse" is defined as taking a drug outside a medical context) that any use of marijuana has to be viewed, medically, as a kind of habituation, or psychological addiction. Something anomalous, puzzling, and disturbing must be labeled pathological. But in less moralistic terms—and it is only on moral grounds that the medical label makes any sense at all—it is necessary to face the fact th