The high, the money, and the fame: The emergent social context of “new marijuana” use among urban youth

Schensul, Jean J.; Huebner, Cristina; Singer, Merrill; Snow, Marvin; Feliciano, Pablo; Broomhall, Lorie

doi:10.1080/01459740.2000.9966164

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“…Although the former tends to be more culturally grounded than the latter, the growing use of ethnographic and qualitative methods in medical anthropology and related fields has helped to emphasize the cultural agency of youth (see also Schensul et al 2000 andWay et al 1994 on drug use by young people). Both anthropological approaches have great advantages over many traditional sociological frameworks, which view certain youth practices as pathological or deviant, especially those that threaten hegemonic systems of authority and economy.…”

Section: Youth Sexuality and The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth and Cultural Practice

Bucholtz

2002

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

355

142

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s Abstract The study of youth played a central role in anthropology in the first half of the twentieth century, giving rise to a still-thriving cross-cultural approach to adolescence as a life stage. Yet the emphasis on adolescence as a staging ground for integration into the adult community often obscures young people's own cultural agency or frames it solely in relation to adult concerns. By contrast, sociology has long considered youth cultures as central objects of study, whether as deviant subcultures or as class-based sites of resistance. More recently, a third approach-an anthropology of youth-has begun to take shape, sparked by the stimuli of modernity and globalization and the ambivalent engagement of youth in local contexts. This broad and interdisciplinary approach revisits questions first raised in earlier sociological and anthropological frameworks, while introducing new issues that arise under current economic, political, and cultural conditions. The anthropology of youth is characterized by its attention to the agency of young people, its concern to document not just highly visible youth cultures but the entirety of youth cultural practice, and its interest in how identities emerge in new cultural formations that creatively combine elements of global capitalism, transnationalism, and local culture.

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Section: Youth Sexuality and The Bodymentioning

confidence: 99%

Youth and Cultural Practice

Bucholtz

2002

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

355

142

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“…Emergent trends: studies finding one form or substance to be a subset, particularly a new trend, of use of another; most commonly, blunt use as a new form of marijuana use [8,13,14]. Progression: studies supporting a 'gateway' theory of progression from tobacco to marijuana and other drugs [15][16][17][18], a 'reverse gateway' progression of marijuana to tobacco and/or other substances [19][20][21] or refuting the gateway theory of drug progression [22][23][24][25] although without suggesting an alternate relationship.…”

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'Smoking': use of cigarettes, cigars and blunts among Southeast Asian American youth and young adults

Lee¹,

Battle²,

Lipton³

et al. 2009

Health Education Research

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Increased use of cigars has been noted among youth, as well as use of blunts (hollowed-out cigars filled with marijuana). Three types of relationships have been previously hypothesized between use of tobacco and marijuana in substance use progression. We aimed to assess these relationships for Southeast Asian American youth and adults in an urban population. We conducted in-person interviews with 164 Southeast Asians, smokers and nonsmokers, in two low-income urban communities in Northern California, collecting both quantitative and qualitative data. Analysis of the quantitative data indicated distinct use patterns for blunts, cigars and other forms of marijuana in terms of associations with generation in the United States. The use of these items was also found to be related: ever having smoked cigarettes or blunts increased the risk of ever having smoked the other three items. Qualitative data found indications of all three hypothesized relationships between tobacco and marijuana for youths but not for older adults. For youths in the study, 'smoking' was found to constitute a social construct within which use of cigarettes, cigars and blunts were somewhat interchangeable. Youths in similar settings may initiate into and progress through smoking as an activity domain rather than any one of these items.

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“…Over the years several large scale retailer of seeds have emerged with most located in the Netherlands, Spain, Great Britain, Canada, and California (Schensul et al 2000). There are several hundreds of small retailers that produce custom seed or repackage seed bought in bulk.…”

Section: Grass Gurusmentioning

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“…Additionally, seeds add to the bulk weight of the buds but cannot be smoked and will not produce a high if consumed orally (West 1998). Since marijuana is an expensive plant, consumers see seeds as wasted money (Schensul et al 2000).…”

Section: Grass Gurusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Growin' Grass: Paradise by the Sodium Light

Wiecko

Thompson

2013

Deviant Behavior

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This qualitative study describes members of a little-known and little-researched subculture: small-time marijuana cultivators in the United States. Couched within a symbolic interaction theoretical framework, extensive ethnographic interviews were conducted with eighteen marijuana growers who cultivate cannabis plants in their homes for small sales and personal use. This study creates a typology of growers based on motivation for growing and techniques of cultivation. The authors also illustrate how marijuana growers in this study used various techniques outlined by Sykes and Matza (1957) to neutralize their involvement in a deviant and illegal activity.

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The high, the money, and the fame: The emergent social context of “new marijuana” use among urban youth

Cited by 21 publications

References 13 publications

Youth and Cultural Practice

Youth and Cultural Practice

'Smoking': use of cigarettes, cigars and blunts among Southeast Asian American youth and young adults

Growin' Grass: Paradise by the Sodium Light

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