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This 4 page paper examines the drug culture in the United States. Furthermore, this paper compares the drug culture to the "normal" culture, and provides many interesting insights based upon these comparisons. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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very distinct from the non-drug culture. The drug culture has steadily grown in this country over the years, making it both a political as well as a social concern.
Essentially, drug cultures are examples of countercultures, and are best identified by their participants use of recreational drugs (The Drug
Culture, n.d.). The people involved in drug cultures are tied together by their common belief that incorporating a certain drug, or drugs, into their life adds both meaning and
value (The Drug Culture, n.d.). Therefore, a definitive unity forms among the members (The Drug Culture, n.d.). "Such unity can take many forms, from friends who take the
drug together, possibly obeying certain rules of etiquette, to full-scale political movements for the reform of drug laws" (The Drug Culture, n.d.).
Todays drug culture is extremely high-tech, as there is an ever-growing supply of "designer" drugs on the market (Mackay, 2003). For example, drugs like clomid produce cutting-edge
results (its a steroid) while also being very hard to detect via drug and/or urine samples (Mackay, 2003). The use
of recreational drugs became popular in the 1960s, due in large part to Dr. Timothy Leary who coined the phrase, "turn on, tune in, and drop out" in response to
his research on LSD (Morse, 2003). This started a counterculture that came to embody a neo-pagan body of beliefs, with the use of drugs being one of the
sacraments of this pseudo-religion (Morse, 2003). The idea behind the culture was, and remains, expanded consciousness (Morse, 2003). "Through chemical induction, the user experiences himself as
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