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About a week after the raid, The New York Times printed a letter from "an irate marijuana
smoker"4] who calculated the value of the seizure, at current prices, at $50,000, less than
1 percent of the police estimate. The enormity of the disjunction calls for a look at the
patterns of marijuana selling. When there are systematic patterns in the versions of reality
espoused by individuals variously located in the social structure of an activity or
institution, we are forced to understand how location influences perception.
The student of a deviant or illegal activity struggles with the subterranean character of
his data. His area of investigation is half-hidden, usually fully accessible only to the
participants. Facts are discovered in a patchy and unsystematic manner, revealing one
facet of a reality, while others that might tell a very different story remain obscured. The
more inaccessible a phenomenon, the broader the latitude for delineating totally
contradictory portraits of it. Add to this the saturation of that phenomenon in emotional
and ideological arenas, and the stage is set for every conceivable version describing it to
run rampant. This is extravagantly the case with marijuana selling. In the past two or three
years, journalistic accounts of marijuana selling from the inside have become public
knowledge.5] Although necessarily partial, these accounts reflect a previously
unexplored source of information which must be taken into account before we can claim
to understand the phenomenon in question.
To know anything about a deviant activity, it is necessary to interview the participant.
For some inexplicable reason, this maxim has rarely been followed in marijuana dealing.
During the course of the research, I saw dozens of transactions, ranging from several
pounds to the smallest purchase. In addition, I requested several dealers to prepare written
statements of their selling activities. Third, so many of my 200 interviewees had sold at
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least once that the formal interview captured a great deal of information on buying and
selling. From these various sources, I was able to piece together something of a consistent
picture of marijuana selling.
Levels of Selling
The most striking source of the discrepancy between the police image of the marijuana
market and that of the insider—i.e., the dealer—is a lack of specification of the level at
which deals customarily take place. The police tend to identify one aspect with the whole,
that aspect most clearly spelled out by the stereotype of the dealer conducting deals of
large volume and high profit. Yet, this comprises a small percentage of all transactions
which take place and, indeed, transactions at that level need not take place at all.
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