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igure—i.e., the total number of users we are making the comparison with.) Since a small
percentage of marijuana arrests were arrested before—two-thirds of the 1967 California
arrestees had no prior arrest record and a fifth had a "minor" record—we are not struck at
once by any evidence of obvious recidivism. Over a third of the heroin arrestees in
California and almost two-thirds of the "narcotic addict or user" arrests had either a major
record or a prison sentence in his past. We know then that an immense percentage of
heroin users are not "rehabilitated." We cannot draw such an obvious inference with
marijuana users, since recidivistic arrests are so much lower for them.
In the absence of proper data, some guessing here may be justified. I would suspect that
they use marijuana less after their arrest than they would have had they not been arrested.
How much less? Two-thirds? Half? Enough to make it worthwhile? If rehabilitation is an
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absolute goal, then any degree of reduction is a positive gain. Viewed in this light, the
laws are effective, merely because they bring about some degree of reduction in use. In
this special sense, the judges may be right.
Some penologists are of the opinion that incarceration may have a subtle criminogenic
effect. By being sent to prison along with professional criminals, drug addicts, and the
violent, a lawbreaker with little or no commitment to crime as a "way of life" will absorb
many attitudes, practices, and skills which will contribute to their post-release criminality.
In a sense, prisons train people to become criminals. There is no doubt that this process
occurs with juvenile delinquents. I suspect that marijuana users are well-insulated and
sufficiently emotionally involved in their own subculture, which basically frowns on
professional and violent forms of criminality, to be to some degree immune from such
influences. Perhaps, however, this applies only to the middle-class, college-educated
marijuana smoker who finds himself in prison. Blumer, in a study of marijuana in the
ghetto, claims that a prison term is decisive in turning an ordinary pothead to a life of
"hustling" criminality.
The player is to be seen... as an enterprising member of the adolescent drug
world, alive to opportunities to get money by small-time dealing in drugs,
ready to engage in a variety of other illicit sources of monetary profit, and
strongly attracted toward moving into a full time job of hustling by
associating with hustlers and learning of their hustling practices. It should
be noted here that the most effective way of getting such practical work
knowledge is through prison experience. If he is incarcerated he is likely to
be thrown into contact with older and more experienced hustlers who, if
they identify him as safe and acceptable, are almost certain to pass on
accounts of their experience.
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