The Culture and Subcultures of Illicit Drug Use and Distribution

Hunt, Geoffrey; Joe‐Laidler, Karen

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“…Drugdealing/running-a supposedly risky business (Moyle, 2019)-was normalized among the interviewees, including students, who were part of the supply chain. This finding supports research elsewhere (see Moyle & Coomber, 2019), suggesting that the globalization of drug supply (and use) as part of mainstream youth leisure culture (Hunt & Joe-Laidler, 2016) is being experienced in contemporary Nigeria. Despite the illicit status of cannabis in Nigeria, it was cultivated around homes, and this contributed to its widespread availability and access.…”

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“…Despite the illicit status of cannabis in Nigeria, it was cultivated around homes, and this contributed to its widespread availability and access. Evidence shows that if illegal drugs become readily available, consumption is bound to rise (Hunt & Joe-Laidler, 2016;Parker, 2005). Given that cannabis has become handy around this city, users will find it easy to get their supply, and this may increase drug-related problems in Nigeria, mainly because illicit drugs contribute significantly to the disease burden globally (Degenhardt et al, 2013).…”

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“…Indeed, we found that some of our participants imported drugs from neighboring cities. Given that an increase in drug availability facilitates pathways to drug initiation and drug careers (Hunt & Joe-Laidler, 2016), it is logical to state that drug use are bound to occur and/or increase in the city we studied.…”

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Cannabis Normalization Among Young Adults in a Nigerian City

Dumbili

2020

Journal of Drug Issues

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Drug normalization has been researched extensively in the West. Yet, we know little about how drug use is normalized in non-Western contexts. Drawing on interviews with young adults, this study is the first to explore illicit drug normalization in Nigeria. Cannabis was widely available and easy to access and students were part of the supply chain. Citing therapeutic and functional benefits, participants normalized cannabis consumption, using it to prepare soup, noodles, and birthday cakes. Unlike women, who may give up cannabis use due to stigmatization and marriage, men had no plans to stop its use. Gender determined drug-taking practices and social accommodation of drug users, suggesting differentiated normalization. Men who used cannabis were accommodated by their peers, unlike women, who were stigmatized by female non-users. In general, the findings highlight a shift in illicit drug use practices and noticeable gendered and differentiated social accommodation among peers, although cultural acceptance of illegal recreational drugs remains at the margin.

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Cannabis Normalization Among Young Adults in a Nigerian City

Dumbili

2020

Journal of Drug Issues

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“…Literature from critical research in the alcohol and drug fields illustrates the ways in which young people use particular commodities, like substances, as cultural markers to stake out their identities in opposition to mainstream norms. The association between youth cultures and “deviant” substance use has been noted by researchers as long ago as the late 1950s when Finestone published Cats, Kicks and Color [ 86 ], documenting the use of heroin, dress, style, and language among young African American drug users in Chicago (for additional work on youth cultures, substances and resistance (see [ 87 ]). Critical research on tobacco has also emphasized how some youth may adopt or maintain smoking precisely because it is positioned as a deviant behavior by the same institutional structures (e.g., normative health establishment) that may already alienate youth who experience other forms of social marginalization [ 50 , 81 , 84 ].…”

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The “here and now” of youth: the meanings of smoking for sexual and gender minority youth

2018

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BackgroundThe mainstream tobacco field in the USA tends to situate youth as passive, particularly in terms of their susceptibility to industry manipulation and peer pressure. However, failing to acknowledge youths’ agency overlooks important meanings youth ascribe to their tobacco use and how those meanings are shaped by the circumstances and structures of their everyday lives.MethodsThis article is based on analysis of 58 in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with sexual and gender minority youth living in the San Francisco Bay area in California. Topics covered in interviews focused on meanings of tobacco in the lives of youth. Interviews lasted approximately 2.5 h and were transcribed verbatim and linked with ATLAS.ti, a qualitative data analysis software. Following qualitative coding, narrative segments were sorted into piles of similarity identified according to principles of pattern-level analysis to interpret to what extent meanings of smoking for young people may operate as forms of resistance, survival, and defense.ResultsAnalysis of our participants’ narratives highlights how smoking is connected to what Bucholtz calls the “‘here-and-now’ of young people’s experience, the social and cultural practices through which they shape their worlds” as active agents (Bucholtz, Annu Rev Anthropol31:525–52, 2003.). Specifically, narratives illustrate how smoking signifies “control” in a multitude of ways, including taking control over an oppressor, controlling the effects of exposure to traumatic or day-to-day stress, and exerting control over the physical body in terms of protecting oneself from violence or defending one’s mental health.ConclusionsThese findings call into question the universal appropriateness of foundational elements that underlie tobacco control and prevention efforts directed at youth in the USA, specifically the focus on abstinence and future orientation. Implications of these findings for research, prevention, and policy are discussed, emphasizing the risk of furthering health inequities should we fail to acknowledge the “here and now” of youth.

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Is Smoking Queer? Implications of California Tobacco Denormalization Strategies for Queer Current and Former Smokers

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This article is concerned with normative conceptions of health structuring tobacco control strategies designed to "denormalize" tobacco use. Analysis of 201 interviews with nonheterosexual and/or non-cisgender adults in California revealed that participants implicated tobacco use in exacerbating health inequities and perpetuating harmful narratives of queer suffering, but also regarded smoking as a critical tool for self-care and symbol of resistance. Participant narratives suggest that using stigma in health promotion efforts which reinforce normative conceptions of health may be harmful to queer people whose social identities exist within ongoing legacies of pathology, health stigma, and deviance from hegemonic structural norms.

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The Culture and Subcultures of Illicit Drug Use and Distribution

Cited by 3 publications

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Cannabis Normalization Among Young Adults in a Nigerian City

Cannabis Normalization Among Young Adults in a Nigerian City

The “here and now” of youth: the meanings of smoking for sexual and gender minority youth

Is Smoking Queer? Implications of California Tobacco Denormalization Strategies for Queer Current and Former Smokers

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