Either would be okay, but I'm interested in studies / surveys of regular habitual pot smokers. Not pot itself, but the people who use it heavily long-term.
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It's been pointed out to me our discussion on this subject has been followed by some folks who want to comment but are too snobbish to take part in the discussion:
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The middle post of the posts above by eleutheria to Dale Baker has a survey which is presented as evidence of what pot smokers are like.
Amazingly it is a 39 year old study from the summer of 1967!!!!! Good grief! Based on an unscientific sample drawn from elite sections of NYC young people.
The median age of my informants was twenty-two, with slightly over one-fifth in their teens (21 percent), and less than a tenth ( 7 percent) were thirty or over. At about the same time I was conducting my survey, The East Village Other, a New York underground newspaper whose 25,000 readers include a considerable percentage of drug users, did a study of its own. In the April 1967 issue, EVO included a fill-out, mail-in questionnaire on its readers' drug use.
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3. During the period of the interviews I conducted (July and August 1967)
1967 was smack dab in the period pot started to become widely used among American young people. At the time there were hardly any long-term pot smokers available for study
It's also worth noting the "researcher" is a fellow whose career has specialized in reseraching "deviance" and who apparently thinks its good scholarship to take part in the activities studied:
Erich Goode is an American sociologist. Goode specializes in the sociology of deviance. He has written a number of books on the field of deviance in general, as well as on specific deviant topics.
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As a sociologist, Goode relies heavily on informants for his research. For example, Goode consulted with and interviewed actual drug users for his books on drugs. In 1999, Goode admitted through the sociology journal circuit that he had engaged in sexual intercourse with many of his deviant informants, and discussed how this influenced his perspective on the subject he was studying. This caused a firestorm of articles defending or denouncing his work [2].
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I expect he was high most of the time he was researching drug use and his survey was of the people he was smoking with, sleeping with, whatever.
Putting forward this in 2006 as a resource for information on drug users is pathetic! If this is the best reference material on pot smokers available, then there must be no meaningful reference material. If so, I wonder why that is? |
