title: Adult marijuana use and Becker's social controls.
abstract: Adults who smoke marijuana regularly but who are conventional in other respects are the subjects of study. The objective was to determine how a sample of adults handle the three social controls facing marijuana smokers depicted by Becker. A content analysis of the results of a self-administered questionnaire show that while some subjects are more concerned than others about these controls, they all use coping devices to deal with them.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D002189:Marijuana Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D012926:Social Control, Formal