Deviance with Drugs

This week in class we discussed how drugs can be deviant.  We did an activity in class and we tried to classify different drugs into the categories of legal, prescription, illegal misdemeanor and illegal felony.  We didn't know the names of the drugs so we had to use the information given about them to do this.  It was interesting to see all of the groups results because some groups had wanted to make caffeine and nicotine illegal just based on the side effects of them.  This activity helped me to realize that some of the drugs that are legal today really can harm us and their effects are impairing.  Drugs are deviant because people classify them based on what they know they do.  People who do drugs are also deviant because others classify them based on what they are doing and how they are acting.