Becoming a Marijuana User

Becoming a Marihuana User By Howard S. Becker First published in The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 59, No. 3, (Nov., 1953), pp. 235-242. An individual will be able to use marihuana for pleasure only when he (1) learns to smoke it in a way  that will produce real...

More Reefer Madness

More Reefer Madness By Eric Schlosser, The Atlantic Monthly; April 1997; More Reefer Madness; Volume 279, No. 4; pages 90-102. EIGHT years ago Douglas Lamar Gray bought a pound of marijuana in a room at the Econo Lodge in Decatur, Alabama. He planned to keep a few...

LaGuardia and the Truth About Marijuana

LaGuardia and the Truth About Marijuana by Fred Gardner, first posted February 8, 2010 at counterpunch.org.   for Howard Zinn Howard Zinn greatly admired Fiorello LaGuardia and in the end the two men had important things in common. They grew up in New York City, two...

The Great Marijuana Hoax

The Great Marijuana Hoax By Allen Ginsberg, posted on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 on marijuana-uses.com.   How much to be revealed about marijuana especially in this time and nation for the general public! for the actual experience of the smoked herb has been...

A Cannabis Odyssey: To Smoke or Not To Smoke by Lester Grinspoon

A Cannabis Odyssey: To Smoke or Not To Smoke by Lester Grinspoon This entry was posted on Monday, April 20th, 2009 at marijuana-uses.com Every age has its peculiar folly and if Charles Mackay, the author of the 19th century classic, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and...