ABSTRACT

Recreational drug consumption is often associated with taboos and legal sanctions. However, the processes of drug liberalisation and decriminalisation have shifted societal attitudes and individual consumption patterns and associated meanings. These tendencies are particularly prominent on college campuses. The purpose of this phenomenological study was to examine the U.S. college students’ interpretations of and experiences with recreational drug use and its links to leisure. Data collection included in-depth, face-to-face interviews with 16 college students. Data analysis followed the analytical steps of transcendental phenomenology – i.e. epoché, phenomenological reduction, imaginative variation, and synthesis. The findings present students’ descriptions of drugs’ (predominantly, marijuana/cannabis) roles in their daily lives, leisure, obligations, productivity patterns, and risk and protective factors. Drugs were portrayed as a leisure activity in itself or as leisure enhancers and even enablers. For some, drugs also served as productivity boosters, focus promoters, and mood uplifters. Drug consumption was rationalised and normalised based on contextual factors and risk assessment. The roles of drugs are analysed through (de)differentiation between leisure and work and (de)differentiation between deviant vs. normalised drug views. This dynamic is conceptualised through the dialectic of Logos- and Eros-modernity, while furthering knowledge on drugs in/as leisure and offering insights for drug education.

摘要

消遣性毒品消费通常与禁忌和法律制裁有关。然而，毒品自由化和去罪化的进程已经改变了社会态度、个人消费模式和相关含义。这些倾向在大学校园中尤为突出。这项现象学研究的目的是检查美国大学生对消遣性药物使用及其与休闲的联系的解释和经历。数据收集包括对 16 名大学生的深入、面对面的采访。数据分析遵循先验现象学的分析步骤——即时代、现象学还原、想象变化和综合。调查结果展示了学生对毒品（主要是大麻/大麻）在日常生活、休闲、义务、生产力模式以及风险和保护因素。毒品本身被描绘成一种休闲活动，或者被描绘成休闲促进者甚至推动者。对一些人来说，药物还起到了生产力促进剂、注意力促进剂和情绪提升剂的作用。基于背景因素和风险评估使药物消费合理化和规范化。通过休闲和工作之间的（去）区分以及异常与正常化药物观点之间的（去）区分来分析毒品的作用。这种动态是通过逻各斯现代性和爱神现代性的辩证法概念化的，同时进一步加深了对休闲/休闲毒品的了解，并为毒品教育提供了见解。药物还起到了生产力促进剂、注意力促进剂和情绪提升剂的作用。基于背景因素和风险评估使药物消费合理化和规范化。通过休闲和工作之间的（去）区分以及异常与正常化药物观点之间的（去）区分来分析毒品的作用。这种动态是通过逻各斯现代性和爱神现代性的辩证法概念化的，同时进一步加深了对休闲/休闲毒品的了解，并为毒品教育提供了见解。药物还起到了生产力促进剂、注意力促进剂和情绪提升剂的作用。基于背景因素和风险评估使药物消费合理化和规范化。通过休闲和工作之间的（去）区分以及异常与正常化药物观点之间的（去）区分来分析毒品的作用。这种动态是通过逻各斯现代性和爱神现代性的辩证法概念化的，同时进一步加深了对休闲/休闲毒品的了解，并为毒品教育提供了见解。