Marijuana use among women: an anthropological view

ABSTRACT

This paper suggests that the concept of intra cultural diversity is a more useful framework for understanding non-conforming behavior among Jamaican rural women than social psychological explanations of deviance from culturally approved sex roles. A comparison of female cannabis smoking in two rural communities, permits us to identify some of the social processes which underly variation in the nature and extent of marijuana use by women in the two settings (AU)