SOC 201 Chapter 11: Chapter 11.18
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Even after the novice learns the proper smoking technique, he or she may not evaluate the results as being high. A remark made by one smoker pointed to the next step on the road to becoming a marijuana user: As a matter of fact, i"ve seen a guy who was high out of his mind and didn"t know it. [becker asks, how can that be, man? ] well, it"s pretty strange, i"ll grant you that, but i"ve seen it. [high] with me, claiming that he"d never got high, one of those guys, and he got completely stoned. And he kept insisting that he wasn"t high. So, i had to prove to him that he was. Becker"s research suggested that getting high involves two things: (1) achieving the physiological effects of the drug (2) recognizing and identifying these effects. Without the second element, one is not really high because one does not know one is high!
