The 8 Drugs

This week in sociology the lesson that shocked me the most was the one where we talked about drugs on Wednesday. We got eight different drugs that were described and we had to rate them. We gave each drug 1-4 1 being the safest drug and 4 meaning illegal and years of jail time. It was mind blowing to me to learn how "drugs" like cigarettes, aspirin, and caffeine can be so harmful to your body. I would have never expected cigarettes to be more harmful than marjuana! Or that alchohal and aspirin can cause liver damage and potential death. This was definitely a very interesting lesson to me because it opened my eyes to see that drugs we may not even define as "drugs" can be so harmful to us. It could even potentially lead to death if taken in large doses. We also talked about deviance and related it to how drugs are deviant. One may not realize this, but maurjuana used to be used as a medicine or drug to treat cancer patients. Now, this drug is deviant or not socially recognized because of the harmful effects associated with the drug.