ll add a survey aspect to the study to find out how important the rebellion attitude is to actual users and non-users. This is important in that it should be taken into account in the formation of the United State’s drug policy. Perhaps this variable is a reason that the drug policy is failing miserably. Hopefully this could lead to a change for the better. It could very well be that legalization could actually reduce overall usage of a drug by removing this psychological factor, after all it seems that the suppression of other variables has not truly created desired results. In Clarke and Levine’s (1972,293) study marijuana “is seen to sum up innumerable facts about the individual, facts which can clearly place him along the liberal-radical dimension in a number of areas of social and political life”. Drugs, especially marijuana, as a whole are seen often times as a symbol. A symbol of the government control over the people and their lives. Therefore drugs are used in response to this belief as a way to rebel against this control and say that they are doing with their lives as they please, whether or not it will be at the expense of their lives. Drug use needs to be studied more, and better policies formed, whether it is legalization or not. As seen existing policies are a failure, perhaps the best policy now is the minimization of drug use instead of outright prohibition....
