Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine /
Chapkis, W.
Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine / Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb. - ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-244) and index.
Shamans and snake oil salesmen -- Set and setting -- The greening of modern medicine -- "Potheads scamming the system" -- Cannabis and consciousness -- Mother's milk and the Muffin Man -- Love grows here -- Lessons in endurance and impermanence.
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.--From the publisher.
0814716660 9780814716663 0814716679 9780814716670
2008007095
Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
Marijuana--Therapeutic use--United States
Cannabis--United States
Cannabinoids--Therapeutic use--United States
Materia medica, Vegetable--United States
Chronic Disease--drug therapy
Marijuana Smoking--legislation & jurisprudence
RM666.C266 / C53 2008
615.32345
Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine / Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb. - ix, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-244) and index.
Shamans and snake oil salesmen -- Set and setting -- The greening of modern medicine -- "Potheads scamming the system" -- Cannabis and consciousness -- Mother's milk and the Muffin Man -- Love grows here -- Lessons in endurance and impermanence.
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.--From the publisher.
0814716660 9780814716663 0814716679 9780814716670
2008007095
Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
Marijuana--Therapeutic use--United States
Cannabis--United States
Cannabinoids--Therapeutic use--United States
Materia medica, Vegetable--United States
Chronic Disease--drug therapy
Marijuana Smoking--legislation & jurisprudence
RM666.C266 / C53 2008
615.32345