SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Hippi, Taxable Income, Medical Cannabis
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Types of people: constant reaction to use culture. Youth: young women were used and showed the danger of marijuana and how it will corrupt white women: historically women have been portrayed as pure/virgin. On the other hand/oppostion they could either be whores/loose. Marijuana was used to demonize and make mexicans seem deviants. Official truth: ronald ragen : he was an official and he would just stand up an lie and say marijuana is the most dangerous to society. Moralizing vehicle for symbolic politics: marijuana is most successful object to regulate ppl. He suggested 3 reasons: learns to smoke it in a way that produces real effects: you have to learn how much substance you need and the technique to roll it. You have to know how to smoke marijuana (you cannot smoke it like ciggz) learn to recognize the effects and connect them with drug use: Its a cognitive process as well as a social one.
