OG Kush. Sour Diesel. Wax, shatter, and vapes. Marijuana has come a
long way since its seedy days in the back parking lots of our
culture. So has Howard S. Becker, the eminent sociologist, jazz
musician, expert on "deviant" culture, and founding NORML board
member. When he published Becoming a Marihuana User more than sixty
years ago, hardly anyone paid attention-because few people smoked
pot. Decades of Cheech and Chong films, Grateful Dead shows, and
Cannabis Cups later, and it's clear-marijuana isn't just an
established commodity, it's an entire culture. And that's just the
thing-Becker totally called it: pot has everything to do with
culture. It's not a blight on culture, but a culture itself-in
fact, you'll see in this book the first use of the term "users,"
rather than "abusers" or "addicts." Come along on this short little
study-now a famous timestamp in weed studies-and you will be
astonished at how relevant it is to us today. Becker doesn't judge,
but neither does he holler for legalization, tell you how to grow
it in a hollowed-out dresser, or anything else like that for which
there are plenty of other books you can buy. Instead, he looks at
marijuana with a clear sociological lens-as a substance that some
people enjoy, and that some others have decided none of us should.
From there he asks: so how do people decide to get high, and what
kind of experience do they have as a result of being part of the
marijuana world? What he discovers will bother some, especially
those who proselytize the irrefutably stunning effects of the
latest strain: chemistry isn't everything-the important thing about
pot is how we interact with it. We learn to be high. We learn to
like it. And from there, we teach others, passing the pipe in a
circle that begins to resemble a bona fide community, defined by
shared norms, values, and definitions just like any other
community. All throughout this book, you'll see the intimate
moments when this transformation takes place. You'll see people
doing it for the first time and those with considerable experience.
You'll see the early signs of the truths that have come to define
the marijuana experience: that you probably won't get high at
first, that you have to hold the hit in, and that there are other
people here who are going to smoke that, too.
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