dents using illicit drugs were more in opposition to their parents”. That right there is a good point in that rebellious attitudes start at the home with the parents. Youth will always attempt to rebel against the control of their authority figure, and they often discover that they will do best by using drugs. Kohn (1971,130) in his discussion puts forth what clues could be used to predict what type of college student will be a drug user. He or she, for gender really is negligent, would probably be “student in the 3rd of 4th year who professes atheism, agnosticism, or some atypical religious preference; does not attend organized religious services; and, most to the point here, has a markedly let-wing, rebellious, sociopolitical outlook. Notice the markedly part involving rebelliousness. This article is just one of few that espouses that rebellious attitudes are to be found in many drug users. Also Kohn had only 10 people in his sample say that they would actually try marijuana if it were legalized. This ratio with a sample of a 197 shows that a legalization policy would not increase use very much but any increases should be easily offset by removal of the rebellion factor. However, an attempt to explain drug use is obviously very difficult to explain due to its inherent complexity. Such patterns are influenced by society, events, and the person’s owns personal beliefs and thoughts. This is also another article with very strong characteristics. It uses a scale to complete the rebellion factor and explains it effectively and creates a strong significance. The only weakness is that he does not add in some of the other factors involved in drug use, of course his was concentrated on the rebellion aspect. Keniston (1970,101) explains that “drug use affected not only by motives and forces within the individual, but what is happening outside of him in his interpersonal environment, and in the wider social and poli...
