Notes

1. Sometimes referred to as a "Hindu Proverb," this is actually a Muslim catch-phrase recorded by J. M. Campbell, Assistant English Opium Commissioner of Bombay, in an appendix to the 1894 Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report. (back)

2. "I have probably had something": Norman E. Zinberg and Andrew Weil, "Cannabis: The First Controlled Experiment," New Society 16 (January 1969): 84-86. (back)

3. Goode: The Marijuana Smokers, pp. 135-36. (back)

4. Howard S. Becker: "Becoming a Marihuana User," American Journal of Sociology 59 (1953): 235-42. Becker's essay also appears as chapter 3 of his book, Outsiders: Studies in The Sociology of Deviance, pp. 41-58. (back)

5. Milton Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues (New York, 1946), p. 71. Reprinted in David Ebin, ed., The Drug Experience, p. 87. (back)

6. "The user": Outsiders, p. 49. (back)

7. "Faith": Ibid. (back)

8. 3 percent, Goode: The Marijuana Smokers, p. 123. (back)

9. In my interviews, I noticed an interesting difference between men and women. In many cases, the men I spoke with affected a posture of considerable knowledge and experience, whether or not it was warranted. Similarly, many women who were clearly experienced and informed about marijuana did not take their knowledge seriously, and often underestimated their own sophistication with regard to smoking. While "marijuana machismo" is not confined to men, I was struck by the differences between the two groups. Moreover, this posturing among men was in evidence even among those men who have consciously allowed their values and attitudes to be changed as a result of the women's movement; perhaps marijuana brings out pockets of resistance. (back)

10. A Child's Garden of Grass: p. 22. (back)

11. Radcilffe: Dianne Bennett, "Marihuana Use Among College Students and Street People" (Senior Honors Thesis, Harvard University, 1970) . (back)

12. Baudelaire: in The Drug Experience, p. 21. (back)