ABSTRACT
An essential component of the calculus of marijuana use is the seller, known in popular mythology as the "pusher" or the "peddler" but among users as the "dealer." Every black market product obeys, however obliquely, the basic economic law: there is a product in demand, which is supplied for a price. The supply of marijuana could, of course, be almost unlimited, since it is a hardy weed easily grown in the American countryside. Its price, therefore, is artificial in the sense that it is only the result of the plant's being grown, distributed, and supplied under restricted circumstances. And it is the seller who must, in order to reach his customer, be able to manipulate and transcend these circumstances.
