Talk:Drug culture

message: This article is really very poorly written, in my opinion. It is too narrow in scope to be accurate, and thus I would encorage someone to add to it. Plus I would recommend the title be changed to Drug Culture- isn't that more logical? Maybe someone should get off the old peace pipe and realize a subculture is postcedent to a culture. 
My other objection is that there is no mention that the term is a descriptive term used in sociology, if not anthropology. This point should be brought to the fore, the article as it stand today- 2005 Jan 29- can be included afterwards. Meaning the self-awareness or political awareness of drug users uniting in collective action is in some sense applicable to the term-I think. My point is that people who use drugs have certain characteristics, they just do and they don't necessarily have awareness of it themselves. The idea that there are similiarities among users is recent in history too, I think. When you read authors like William S. Burroughs you see how 'groundbreaking' his early writing was because he was doing what had not been done before- describing a 'culture' among users. Did 19th Century addicts like Edgar Allen Poe think like that? --Mikerussell 06:21, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
::(As an aside, there is really no evidence that Edgar Allan Poe was a drug addict. --Midnightdreary 16:33, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With 200 million estimated regular (illicit) drug users globally (according to UNODC), I think that it should be Culture, not subculture. If you include alcohol as a "drug", then it's definitely Culture, rather than subculture. Shamanchill (talk) 00:50, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drug culture or subculture? 

message: The article concerns drug subculture, not just cannabis subculture, so I can't understand the recent revert of "drug" to "plant".  I'm going to restore the word drug as it obviously covers the whole gamut, not just weed.
Juux (talk) 20:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plant or drug? 

message: Is it just me, or does this page seem to take a positive attitude towards drugs and the like. Not too sure.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.4.78.226 (talk) 01:35, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Point of view 

message: With all do respect, the person who wrote in the article than Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas provides a "critique" to drug culture in the 60's is a douchebag. Thompson's masterpiece is a celebration of it, and also pretty much a chronicle of self experience.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.217.82.204 (talk • contribs) 08:23, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't follow. To write a critique is not the necessarily the same as being critical. Steinberger (talk) 22:50, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hunter S. Thompson 

message: The troops need to be rallied to improve this article, as well as that, Cannabis culture needs to be its own article, not just a redirect to here.  --Thoric (talk) 20:59, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a lot of work 

message: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_culture 2600:6C52:6500:1276:64A4:3A7F:3450:E4D (talk) 07:15, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_culture