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Marijuana as Social Common Denominator: Reconsidering the Use and Academic Success Relationship

My interest in this paper's focal topic is derived from the experiences and observations of one immersed in drug subcultures and as a researcher of drug control policy, enforcement, and treatment. Having left a liberal sociology graduate program to join the faculty of a conservative college of criminal justice, various ironies concerning marijuana use and its control suddenly became acute. Listening to the conversations of my graduate students, many of whom were aspirant law enforcement officers, wherein marijuana users in the graduate student culture were negatively labeled and ostracized (typically over drinks in a bar), I began to compare my students as grouped by use. This paper, only an introductory exploration, is an effort to assess the effects of marijuana on not just academic performance, but also, the graduate school experience.