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Dying to Get High - Wendy Chapkis, Richard J. Webb

Dying to Get High

Marijuana as Medicine
Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2008
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-1666-3 (ISBN)
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Offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuana
An inside look at how patients living with terminal illness created one of the country’s first medical marijuana collectives

Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decades. Despite overwhelming public support and growing scientific evidence of its therapeutic effects (relief of the nausea caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS, control over seizures or spasticity caused by epilepsy or MS, and relief from chronic and acute pain, to name a few), the drug remains illegal under federal law.

In Dying to Get High, noted sociologist Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb investigate one community of seriously-ill patients fighting the federal government for the right to use physician-recommended marijuana. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) is a unique patient-caregiver cooperative providing marijuana free of charge to mostly terminally ill members. For a brief period in 2004, it even operated the only legal non-governmental medical marijuana garden in the country, protected by the federal courts against the DEA.

Using as their stage this fascinating profile of one remarkable organization, Chapkis and Webb tackle the broader, complex history of medical marijuana in America. Through compelling interviews with patients, public officials, law enforcement officers and physicians, Chapkis and Webb ask what distinguishes a legitimate patient from an illegitimate pothead, good drugs from bad, medicinal effects from just getting high. Dying to Get High combines abstract argument and the messier terrain of how people actually live, suffer and die, and offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuana.

Wendy Chapkis is Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, ME. She is the author of the award-winning book Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor and Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance. Richard J. Webb is a lecturer in Communication Studies at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Shamans and Snake Oil Salesmen 2 Set and Setting 3 Th e Greening of Modern Medicine 4 "Potheads Scamming the System" 5 Cannabis and Consciousness 6 Mother's Milk and the Muffin Man 7 Love Grows Here 8 Lessons in Endurance and Impermanence Notes Index About the Authors

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.8.2008
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8147-1666-0 / 0814716660
ISBN-13 978-0-8147-1666-3 / 9780814716663
Zustand Neuware
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