What Is The Relationship Between Illicit Drug Use And Deviance?

[Ulrich]

Explain the relationship between illicit drug use and deviance.

[Roxbury]

Illicit drug users are deviant. They choose to break the law and defy rightful authority.

[Elvyn]

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[Tzefanyahu]

Society creates social norms. These are behaviors that are acceptable in that culture. Most or many social norms are enshrined in our laws.   Deviance is behavior that lies outside of accepted social norms. It is usually culturally/socially accepted as deviance or deviant behavior.   As time and morality changes so does societies view on certain behaviors. It can be flexible. But sometimes laws do not match social expectations. Laws are more inflexible.   Drug use has been deemed by our society, or a significant part of it, as illegal, unhealthy and not acceptable. Our culture/society has labeled drug use as outside the boundaries of acceptable social behavior. It has become illegal, an offence under law and therefore illicit. Society has labeled it deviant behavior.   Homosexuality was once deemed as deviant behavior but a significant change is society?s views has it  now labeled as acceptable. It still may be deviant to some.   Deviance is in the mind of the society. The society labels the behavior.   Labeling deviance is also a method of social control.

[Athmarr]

For the most part, drugs are criminalized on the basis of how much they derange the thinking of the user. Yes, alcohol should be at the top of the criminalized drug list, except that we did outlaw its transport and sale for 13 years and found it was as unenforceable as marijuana laws. Marijuana grows like, well, like a weed, and alcohol is made by combining sugar, yeast, warm water, and two weeks in a container with a one-way valve(I have some on my right, on the floor, brewing right now as I type.) Back to the topic, the criminalized drugs are exactly those drugs that either unhinge the soul's editor(that stops a person from doing wrong because of the consequences), or change the thinking altogether(LSD can make one psychotic, as it did with Syd Barrett, cocaine can make one paranoid, methamphetamine can make one violent, etc.) In other words, the connection between use of drugs that are illegal and deviant behavior is, except in a few cases, an exact connection. Except for marijuana, which is an alcohol substitute, those drugs that cause deviance(sometimes) are those drugs that are illegal. danielpauldavis 55 months ago Please sign in to give a compliment. Please verify your account to give a compliment. Please sign in to send a message. Please verify your account to send a message.