Exploring the Marijuana Subculture: Beliefs and Practices

Marijuana Subculture A subculture is a group of within a society that has its own shared set of values, norms, beliefs, interests that functionally unify them, and that are different from those held by the majority of society. Marijuana comes from the Sativa plant and the stems, seeds and leaves are usually brown or green. Marijuana can be smoked, from a joint, blunt, bong, pipe, hookah and handmade materials such as plastic or even food like an apple, it can also be baked into food and brewed as tea. Millions of people around the world use marijuana for spiritual, therapeutic and recreational purposes. When you smoke marijuana the THC goes in your lungs and into your bloodstream and the chemical travels throughout all the organs in your

The 420 universal holiday is the most defining characteristic of the marijuana subculture. 420 is a number as well as the date of April 20th which represents a day dedicated to the smoking of marijuana. This specific date was said to have originated from a group of kids who attended San Rafael high school in northern California in 1971 known as the “Waldos” because they always hung out by a wall. The Waldos started using the term 420 because they met after school every day at 4:20 pm to hang out and smoke marijuana. The group’s friends and acquaintances which were some members of the rock group Grateful Dead also used the term and put it on one of their concert flyers then it started becoming popular in

Marijuana is used to relieve anger, fear, or pain a personal may feel. They believe it’s essential to their lifestyle and that they have a passion for it. The people within this subculture use marijuana because they love the effect that THC gives them. These marijuana users also praise marijuana because their role models such as Bob Marley, used it. They also use it because it is common to use in their environment, or they were raised in an environment that did not view it as taboo. Marijuana users claim that the consumption of marijuana makes music sound better, as well as movies and television shows, because it sounds clearer as well as funnier. When smoking in public this allows marijuana users to get to know and understand other marijuana users better and it facilitates a more intimate exchange. Marijuana users feel it creates a special bond with another person when they smoke together and it causes social interaction because it brings all types of people together and unifies them, which is the main point in a subculture. “Munchies” or when a marijuana user feels hungry and eats a bunch of snacks, is the most common and universal result of