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4 Contemp. Drug Probs. 397 (1975)
Sociological Aspects of Marijuana Use

handle is hein.journals/condp4 and id is 407 raw text is: Sociological aspects of marijuana use BY ERICH GOODE, PH.D. Dr. Goode is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; he is also the author of The Marijuana Smokers, New York: Basic Books, 1970 and Drugs in American Society, New York: Alfred Knopf 1972. In the furor stirred up over recent medical findings on some possible consequences of marijuana use, a major issue has been neglected: the social aspects of marijuana use. The most controversial and widely publicized antimarijuana manifesto of the past few years, Senator James Eastland's hearings entitled Marihuana-Hashish Epidemic and Its Impact on United States Security (published by the United States Government Printing Office in 1974), is an example of this principle. Twenty scientists and physicians-some of them eminent, others more infamous than eminent-claim to have documented marijuana's severely damaging effects on the brain, the cellular process, respiration, the chromosomes, reproductive and sexual functioning, and the psyche. The hearings were designed to create a public and legislative climate unfavorable to decriminalization. It was assumed that the legal issue could be reduced to a simple medical question. Without entering into the medical side of the controversy at all-and there are scientists and physicians who would challenge each of the specific findings presented before the Eastland hearings-it AUTHOR'S NOTE: This statement was prepared for and delivered to the Connecticut Drug Council, November 21, 1975, at Hartford. Itspreparation was assisted by a Faculty Research Fellowship from the Research Foundation of the State University of New York, which covered the summer of 1975, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, which covered the academic year 1975-1976. 1 am profoundly gratefulfor the generosity of both granting agencies.

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