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"A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed": Understanding the Relationship Between Friendship Identity and Market Relations Among Marijuana Users

Result description

The importance of friendship networks and drug sharing is a well-documented feature of marijuana use. Recent studies show an increased role of acquiring marijuana through friends, especially in settings with rather punitive drug policy. This article aimsat gaining insight into the definitions and roles that marijuana users attribute to friendship. Forty-four marijuana users and retailers recruited in North Central Florida were subjected to semistructured interviews, with extensive probes on respondents' "friends." Data were analyzed with the use of inductive analysis, and were framed in identity theory. Respondents' definitions of friendship contained expectations on marijuana sharing and reciprocation, purchases for friends, and introduction to dealers-who were also referred as "friends." The study findings suggest that marijuana users' definitions of friendship include expectations for behavior that sustain the distribution chain. Role-based expectations on "friendly" behavior serve

Keywords

friendshipsocial supplyidentity theorydrug policyillicit marijuana market

The result's identifiers

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    "A Friend With Weed Is a Friend Indeed": Understanding the Relationship Between Friendship Identity and Market Relations Among Marijuana Users

  • Original language description

    The importance of friendship networks and drug sharing is a well-documented feature of marijuana use. Recent studies show an increased role of acquiring marijuana through friends, especially in settings with rather punitive drug policy. This article aimsat gaining insight into the definitions and roles that marijuana users attribute to friendship. Forty-four marijuana users and retailers recruited in North Central Florida were subjected to semistructured interviews, with extensive probes on respondents' "friends." Data were analyzed with the use of inductive analysis, and were framed in identity theory. Respondents' definitions of friendship contained expectations on marijuana sharing and reciprocation, purchases for friends, and introduction to dealers-who were also referred as "friends." The study findings suggest that marijuana users' definitions of friendship include expectations for behavior that sustain the distribution chain. Role-based expectations on "friendly" behavior serve

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    Jx - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    AH - Economics

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

Others

  • Publication year

    2013

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Journal of Drug Issues

  • ISSN

    0022-0426

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    43

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    3

  • Country of publishing house

    US - UNITED STATES

  • Number of pages

    24

  • Pages from-to

    289-313

  • UT code for WoS article

    000330301600003

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

Basic information

Result type

Jx - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

Jx

CEP

AH - Economics

Year of implementation

2013