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few in even the most empirical of civilizations will apply the same rules of evidence in the
theater of their family as in their workaday world.
The more complex the society, the greater the number of competing versions
concerning reality. The positivists were in error in assuming that greater knowledge would
bring epistemological convergence. The arenas of controversy are more far-flung than
they ever have been. Now, instead of societies differing as to how they view the real
world, subsegments of the same society differ as well. This poses a serious problem for
those members of society who have an emotional investment in stability and the
legitimacy of their own special version of reality. The problem becomes, then, a matter of
moral hegemony, of legitimating one distinctive view of the world and of discrediting
competing views.
These rules of validating reality, and society's faith in them, may serve
as strategies in ideological struggles. Contending parties will wish to establish veracity by
means of the dominant cultural mode.
All societies invest this selection process with an air of mystification.
Using Peter
Berger's phrase: "Let the institutional order be so interpreted as to hide, as much as
possible, its constructed character.... The] humanly constructed nomoi are given a cosmic
status...."[4] This process must not, above all, be seen as whimsical and arbitrary; it must
be grounded in the nature of reality itself. The one selected view of the world must be
seen as the only possible view of the world; it must be identified with the real world. All
other versions of reality must be seen as whimsical and arbitrary and, above all, in error.
At one time, this twin mystification process was religious in character: views in
competition with the dominant one were heretical and displeasing to the gods—hence,
Galileo's crime. Now, of course, the style is to cloak what Berger terms "fictitious
necessities" with an aura of scientific validity. Nothing has greater discrediting power
today than the demonstration that a given assertion has been "scientifically disproven."
Our contemporary pawnbrokers of reality are scientists.
Value and Fact in Negotiating the Marijuana Reality
Probably no area of social life reflects this selective process more than drug use.
Society has constructed the social concept "drug" in such a way that it excludes elements
which are substantially identical to those it includes. What is seen as the essential reality
of a given drug and its use is a highly conwill be noticed.
Clearly, even societies with powerful scientific and empirical traditions will contain
subcultures which have less faith in the logic of the senses than others have. Moreover, all
cultures have absorbed one or another mode of reasoning differentially, so that some
institutions will typify the dominant mode more characteristically than others. Certainly,
(2 of 16)4/15/2004 1:03:47 AM
The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 3
few in even the most empirical of civilizations will apply the same rules of evidence in the
theater of their family as in their workaday world.
The more complex the society, the greater the number of competing versions
concerning reality. The positivists were in error in assuming that greater knowledge would
bring epistemological convergence. The arenas of controversy are more far-flung than
they ever have been. Now, instead of societies differing as to how they view the real
world, subsegments of the same society differ as well. This poses a serious problem for
those members of society who have an emotional investment in stability and the
legitimacy of their own special version of reality. The problem becomes, then, a matter of
moral hegemony, of legitimating one distinctive view of the world and of discrediting
competing views. These rules of validating reality, and society's faith in them, may serve
as strategies in ideological struggles. Contending parties will wish to establish veracity by
means of the dominant cultural mode.
All societies invest this selection process with an air of mystification. Using Peter
Berger's phrase: "Let the institutional order be so interpreted as to hide, as much as
possible, its constructed character.... The] humanly constructed nomoi are given a cosmic
status...."4] This process must not, above all, be seen as whimsical and arbitrary; it must
be grounded in the nature of reality itself. The one selected view of the world must be
seen as the only possible view of the world; it must be identified with the real world. All
other versions of reality must be seen as whimsical and arbitrary and, above all, in error.
At one time, this twin mystification process was religious in character: views in
competition with the dominant one were heretical and displeasing to the gods—hence,
Galileo's crime. Now, of course, the style is to cloak what Berger terms "fictitious
necessities" with an aura of scientific validity. Nothing has greater discrediting power
today than the demonstration that a given assertion has been "scientifically disproven."
Our contemporary pawnbrokers of reality are scientists.
Value and Fact in Negotiating the Marijuana Reality
Probably no area of social life reflects this selective process more than drug use.
Society has constructed the social concept "drug" in such a way that it excludes elements
which are substantially identical to those it includes. What is seen as the essential reality
of a given drug and its use is a highly conwill be noticed.
Clearly, even societies with powerful scientific and empirical traditions will contain
subcultures which have less faith in the logic of the senses than others have. Moreover, all
cultures have absorbed one or another mode of reasoning differentially, so that some
institutions will typify the dominant mode more characteristically than others. Certainly,
(2 of 16)4/15/2004 1:03:47 AM
The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 3
few in even the most empirical of civilizations will apply the same rules of evidence in the
theater of their family as in their workaday world.
The more complex the society, the greater the number of competing versions
concerning reality. The positivists were in error in assuming that greater knowledge would
bring epistemological convergence.
The arenas of controversy are more far-flung than
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world, subsegments of the same society differ as well. This poses a serious problem for
those members of society who have an emotional investment in stability and the
legitimacy of their own special version of reality. The problem becomes, then, a matter of
moral hegemony, of legitimating one distinctive view of the world and of discrediting
competing views.
These rules of validating reality, and society's faith in them, may serve
as strategies in ideological struggles. Contending parties will wish to establish veracity by
means of the dominant cultural mode.
All societies invest this selection process with an air of mystification. Using Peter
Berger's phrase: "Let the institutional order be so interpreted as to hide, as much as
possible, its constructed character.... [The humanly constructed nomoi are given a cosmic
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be grounded in the nature of reality itself. The one selected view of the world must be
seen as the only possible view of the world; it must be identified with the real world. All
other versions of reality must be seen as whimsical and arbitrary and, above all, in error.
At one time, this twin mystification process was religious in character: views in
competition with the dominant one were heretical and displeasing to the gods—hence,
Galileo's crime. Now, of course, the style is to cloak what Berger terms "fictitious
necessities" with an aura of scientific validity.
Nothing has greater discrediting power
today than the demonstration that a given assertion has been "scientifically disproven."
Our contemporary pawnbrokers of reality are scientists.
Value and Fact in Negotiating the Marijuana Reality
Probably no area of social life reflects this selective process more than drug use.
Society has constructed the social concept "drug" in such a way that it excludes elements
which are substantially identical to those it includes. What is seen as the essential reality
of a given drug and its use is a highly conwill be noticed.
Clearly, even societies with powerful scientific and empirical traditions will contain
subcultures which have less faith in the logic of the senses than others have. Moreover, all
cultures have absorbed one or another mode of reasoning differentially, so that some
institutions will typify the dominant mode more characteristically than others. Certainly,
(2 of 16)4/15/2004 1:03:47 AM
The Marijuana Smokers - Chapter 3
few in even the most empirical of civilizations will apply the same rules of evidence in the
theater of their family as in their workaday world.
The more complex the society, the greater the number of competing versions
concerning reality. The positivists were in error in assuming that greater knowledge would
bring epistemological convergence.
The arenas of controversy are more far-flung than
they ever have been. Now, instead of societies differing as to how they view the real
world, subsegments of the same society differ as well. This poses a serious problem for
those members of society who have an emotional investment in stability and the
legitimacy of their own special version of reality. The problem becomes, then, a matter of
moral hegemony, of legitimating one distinctive view of the world and of discrediting
competing views. These rules of validating reality, and society's faith in them, may serve
as strategies in ideological struggles.
Contending parties will wish to establish veracity by
means of the dominant cultural mode.
All societies invest this selection process with an air of mystification. Using Peter
Berger's phrase: "Let the institutional order be so interpreted as to hide, as much as
possible, its constructed character.... The humanly constructed nomoi are given a cosmic
status...."4 This process must not, above all, be seen as whimsical and arbitrary; it must
be grounded in the nature of reality itself.
The one selected view of the world must be
seen as the only possible view of the world; it must be identified with the real world. All
other versions of reality must be seen as whimsical and arbitrary and, above all, in error.
At one time, this twin mystification process was religious in character: views in
competition with the dominant one were heretical and displeasing to the gods—hence,
Galileo's crime.
Now, of course, the style is to cloak what Berger terms "fictitious
necessities" with an aura of scientific validity.
Nothing has greater discrediting power
today than the demonstration that a given assertion has been "scientifically disproven."
Our contemporary pawnbrokers of reality are scientists.
Value and Fact in Negotiating the Marijuana Reality
Probably no area of social life reflects this selective process more than drug use.
Society has constructed the social concept "drug" in such a way that it excludes elements
which are substantially identical to those it includes. What is seen as the essential reality
of a given drug and its use is a highly con

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seemingly nonsensical; an increased faith in the logic of the viscera, rather than in the
intellect; a heightened sense for the absurd; an abandonment of traditional and "linear"
reasoning sequences, and the substitution of "mosaic" and fragmentary lines of attack;
bursts of insight rather than chains of thought; connectives relying on internal relevance,
rather than a commonly understood and widely accepted succession of events and
thoughts; love of the paradoxical, the perverse, the contradictory, the incongruous; an
implosive inward thrust, rather than an explosive outward thrust; instantaneous totality
rather than specialization; the dynamic rather than the static; the unique rather than the
general and universal. The parallel between the mental processes associated with the
marijuana high and the "tribal" mind typified by McLuhan is too close to escape mention.
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Those with conventional, traditional, and classic tastes in art will view these results in a
dim light. A recent antimarijuana tract, for instance, comments on the highly
unconventional and antitraditionalist novelist William Burroughs' approval of marijuana's
influence on his creative powers: "The irony is that Burroughs meant his remark as an
endorsement."7] The sociologist of knowledge seeks to understand and explain the bases
from which man's intellectual efforts spring. He will notice the prominent place in this
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debate the manner in which matters of taste, such as artistic aesthetics, are intimately and
inseparably bound with views of the empirical reality of the drug. He who is opposed to
the use of marijuana, and who believes that it is (empirically) harmful, is very likely to
dislike contemporary art forms, and vice versa. The two are not, of course, necessarily
causally related, but rather emerge out of the same matrix.
Marijuana's reputed impact on sexual behavior is all to the good to some who are
comfortable with an unconventional view of sex. To the sexually traditional, the fact that
marijuana could disrupt man's (and woman's) sexuality is an out-of-hand condemnation of
the drug. While marijuana's opponents would label any imputed increase in sexual activity
as a result of drug "promiscuity"8] and would roundly condemn it, the drug's apostles
would cheer society's resurgent interest in the organic, the earthy, the sensual. For
instance, a 1967 court ruling in the Court of Massachusetts, held that sexual promiscuity
was one of the undesirable consequences of marijuana use; Justice Tauro rejected the
defendants' appeal. Strangely, Time magazine claimed that Tauro's ruling would be judged
fair by even the staunchest of marijuana supporters.
Marijuana as a mind-altering drug has discrediting power to the one who thinks of the
everyday workings of the mind as normal and desirable. But to the e
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