TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1953//
TI  - Becoming a marihuana user
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Becker, H. S.
SP  - 235
EP  - 242
VL  - 59
IS  - 3
N2  - An individual will be able to use marijuana for pleasure only when he 1. learns to smoke it in a way that will produce real effects; 2. learns to recognize the effects and connect them with drug use; and 3. learns to enjoy the sensations he perceives. This proposition, based on an analysis of fifty interviews with marijuana users, calls into question theories which ascribe behavior to antecedent predispositions and suggests the utility of explaining behavior in terms of the emergence of motives and dispositions in the course of experience.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/221326
ID  - ref1
ER  -