Dying to Get High Marijuana As Medicine

Name: Dying to Get High Marijuana As Medicine
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ISBN: 9780814716670

ISBN-10: 0814716679

ISBN-13: 9780814716670

Edition: 2008

Authors: Wendy Chapkis, Richard J. Webb

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This is an important story well told Craig Reinarman, co-author of Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice 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 sociologists Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb investigate one community of seriously-ill patients fighting the federal…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 8/3/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Richard J. Webb is a lecturer in Communication Studies at San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Notes


Index


About the Authors