or weed in the United States so they made selling it their full-time occupation. Eventually, the drug became so popular that the government began to take action. Many people argue, and justifiedly so, this is when the drug cartels started to form in Mexico.
             By 1936 the United States government began to take action in controlling the drug and its circulation among the country. Unfortunately, this is when Marijuana began to be condemned in society. According to Recovery first.org:
             "The negative reputation for marijuana comes about as a result of propaganda that has been widely distributed since the 1930's and 1940's, as well as images broadcast all over television, in print and on the web depicting the violence and destruction brought about by the US's War on Drugs."
             This negative propaganda began to bring forth negative attention in media broadcast. Naturally, people who often used the drug in one way or another started to become stereotyped by people who fell for the negative stereotype.
             I believe that Potheads (the term in itself has a negative connotation) as a subculture emerged, due to negative publicity from the media in the prior years. So in one form or another, it was a type of rebellion from the parent culture. Dictionary.com states the definition of subculture as followed "a group having social, economic, ethnic, or other traits distinctive enough to distinguish it from others within the same culture or society." This made the word Pothead fit perfectly into the definition.
             People who were already users of the drug formed more of an underground subculture. Smoking pot was not something that comm
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