The Medicalization Of Marijuana
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The Medicalization Of Marijuana
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Author : Michelle Newhart
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-09-03
The Medicalization Of Marijuana written by Michelle Newhart and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Social Science categories.
Winner of the Donald W. Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs. The Medicalization of Marijuana takes the first comprehensive look at how patients negotiate incomplete medicalization and what their experiences reveal about our relationship with this controversial plant as it is incorporated into biomedicine. Is cannabis used similarly to other medicines? Drawing on interviews with midlife patients in Colorado, a state at the forefront of medical cannabis implementation, this book explores the practical decisions individuals confront about medical use, including whether cannabis will work for them; the risks of registering in a state program; and how to handle questions of supply, dosage, and routines of use. Individual stories capture how patients redefine and reclaim cannabis use as legitimate—individually and collectively—and grapple with an inherently political identity. These experiences help illustrate how stigma, prejudice, and social change operate. By positioning cannabis use within sociological models of medical behavior, Newhart and Dolphin provide a wide-reaching, theoretically informed analysis of the issue that expands established concepts and provides new insight on medical cannabis and how state programs work.
The Medicalisation Of Marijuana How Will It Affect The Conduct Of Individuals In North America
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Author : Martine Quinn
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2016-11-29
The Medicalisation Of Marijuana How Will It Affect The Conduct Of Individuals In North America written by Martine Quinn and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-29 with Social Science categories.
Essay from the year 2016 in the subject Sociology - Social System and Social Structure, grade: 85%, The Open University, course: DD308, language: English, abstract: This essay critically explores how the Medicalization of Marijuana is transforming the conduct of individuals and social worlds in contemporary North America, and argues that marijuana is being deregulated for capital gain in which the state is gaining a potent form of social control. Social control will be used as the power to have a particular set of definitions of the world realized in both spirit (laws, moral codes, customs, habits) and through conduct. This RQ shows the structure/agency debate that sociologist Alan Dawe (1970) refers to this dualism as the ‘two sociologies’. That is one concerned with structure and structural constraint the other with individual action and agency.
The Medicalization Of Cannabis
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Author : S. M. Crowther
language : en
Publisher: Qmul History C20medicine
Release Date : 2010
The Medicalization Of Cannabis written by S. M. Crowther and has been published by Qmul History C20medicine this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Medical categories.
Medical Cannabis And Recreational Marijuana
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Author : Matt Reid (Sociologist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Medical Cannabis And Recreational Marijuana written by Matt Reid (Sociologist) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Cannabis categories.
Marijuana's status as an illegal drug has been redefined over the previous three decades. Despite Michigan and 32 other states having comprehensive medical cannabis programs, both academics and laypeople commonly present the medicalization of marijuana as an intermediary phase or proxy for fully legalized recreational use. While some evidence exists to support this position, this framework marginalizes the struggles and experiences of patients who have found relief through their therapeutic use of cannabis. As such, the goal of this study is to re-center the voices of cannabis patients in academic conversations of cannabis as medicine. My study is unique in that it is the first qualitative investigation of cannabis patients in Michigan, and since Michigan legalized adult-use (recreational) marijuana in 2018, my study is also the first to document patient experiences in a post-prohibition state. The research questions that guided my descriptive qualitative inquiry revolved around the areas of medicalization, normalization, and gender. The primary method utilized in my study was five semi-structured focus groups of medical cannabis patients (n=21) where the groups were asked to reflect upon their histories, current struggles, and their anticipations of the future. To expand the perspectives analyzed in my research, I also performed observations at several cannabis businesses and events (n=6), and I conducted semi-structured interviews with key informants (n=9) in Michigan’s medical cannabis community, including dispensary owners, caregivers, activists, industry advocates, and a certifying physician. This descriptive study expands our sociological understanding of medicalization, normalization, gender as experienced by medical cannabis. Results indicate patients prefer the current "alternative medicalization" of cannabis where their medicine is legitimized and made accessible outside of biomedical institutions. Patients in my study recounted intolerance and ultimatums to stop using cannabis by health care professionals, and they loathed how physicians pushed pharmaceuticals while criticizing cannabis medicines. Furthermore, since patients in my study continued to experience a range of social and structural stigmas, my results call into question claims that marijuana is normalized in American society. Indeed, these sweeping assertations of normalization may have been made from positions of race, gender, class, and/or generational privilege. Finally, both men and women in my study reported gender-specific stigmas over their use of medical cannabis, though men who use cannabis may more readily break with our culture's hegemonic construction of masculinity.
How The Use Of Marijuana Was Criminalized And Medicalized 1906 2004
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Author : Jeffrey Matthew London
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
How The Use Of Marijuana Was Criminalized And Medicalized 1906 2004 written by Jeffrey Matthew London and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Cannabis categories.
How the Use of Marijuana Was Criminalized and Medicalized, 1906-2004 : A Foucaultian History of Legislation in American
The Criminalization And Medicalization Of Marijuana
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Author : Jeffrey Matthew London
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Criminalization And Medicalization Of Marijuana written by Jeffrey Matthew London and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.
Contemporary Health Issues On Marijuana
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Author : Kevin A. Sabet
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-01
Contemporary Health Issues On Marijuana written by Kevin A. Sabet and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-01 with Psychology categories.
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States. A growing number of Americans now perceive marijuana as relatively harmless and the notion that the drug should be legalized it is becoming increasingly popular. As policy in this area remains dynamic, resulting health issues, including the harm to adolescents and the potential for compounds to have therapeutic value, become more salient. Contemporary Health Issues on Marijuana is a balanced, empirically driven volume that highlights new and meaningful theory and evidence pertaining to marijuana use. Authored by a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of psychology, epidemiology, medicine, and criminal justice, chapters comprehensively review numerous research domains of public health interest with respect to marijuana use, including the drug's impact on cognitive and neurological functioning, its medical effects, treatment approaches for cannabis use disorders, the effects of marijuana smoking on lung function, and marijuana-impaired driving. The book concludes with a chapter on policy implications, taking stock of current trends and anticipating prevalence rates and resulting health consequences that will only continue to grow. Contemporary Health Issues on Marijuana is a resource of great clinical, scientific, and public policy value that will be a must-have for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers alike.
The High Road
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Author : Samuel Vickovic
language : en
Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07
The High Road written by Samuel Vickovic and has been published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07 with categories.
Recent legalization of marijuana for medical purposes in certain U.S. states has brought state and federal laws regulating marijuana into conflict. As with other issues, media coverage has affected both legal and social consciousness of the debate regarding legalization of medical marijuana. This review highlights the history of marijuana, the social control of marijuana, the medicalization of marijuana use, and the relevance of agenda-setting theory to media coverage of medical marijuana. An ethnographic content analysis of newspaper articles concerning medical marijuana was utilized and revealed that 64.2% of the sample treated medical marijuana positively. The effect of presidency and region of the country regarding the treatment of medical marijuana is discussed. The policy implications discussed shed light on the various different issues encountered due to the legalization of medical marijuana, and offers guidelines for minimizing the confusion caused. The topics included in this book would be beneficial for individuals involved in drug policy making, as well as those who are interested in the topics of marijuana, and the role of media in social control.
Cannabis Cures
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Author : Adam R. Rathge
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Cannabis Cures written by Adam R. Rathge and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with categories.
This dissertation charts the medicalization and criminalization of the drug now widely known as marijuana. Almost no one in the United States used that word, however, until it was introduced from Mexico in the early twentieth century. Prior to that, Americans often called it hemp or hashish, and generally knew it as Cannabis - the scientific name given to a genus of plants by Carl Linnaeus. That transition in terminology from cannabis to marijuana serves as the crux of this project: It begins in 1840 with the formal introduction of cannabis into American medicine and ends in 1937 with the federal prohibition of marijuana. In between, it charts nearly a century of medical discourse, social concern, and legislative restrictions surrounding the drug - demonstrating that the origins of our nation's war on weed are much older and more complicated than previous studies have suggested. In short, marijuana prohibition in the United States was not a swift or sudden byproduct of racism and xenophobia toward Mexican immigrants, but instead, the culmination of broad evolutions in public health and drug regulation coupled with a sustained concern about the potential dangers of cannabis use dating to the mid-nineteenth century.
Marijuana
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Author : Kevin P Hill
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-03-31
Marijuana written by Kevin P Hill and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Self-Help categories.
The leading clinical expert on marijuana sifts through the myths about the drug to deliver an unbiased, comprehensive guide backed by scientific facts to give you the information you need to make informed decisions about marijuana. Marijuana--or weed, pot, grass, MJ, Mary Jane, reefer, cannabis, or hemp among dozens of other names--has a long, colorful history dating back more than 2,000 years as the one of the most sought-after mood-altering substances in the world. Societal opinion about the drug has dramatically swayed over the years, from viewing it as a grave danger to society in the 1930s film Reefer Madness, to a harmless recreational high in the ’60s, to an addictive substance and gateway to such “hard” drugs as heroin today. The myths and misinformation about marijuana have only multiplied over the years as the controversy over legalization and medical marijuana grows. A nationally recognized clinical expert and leading researcher on marijuana, Kevin P. Hill provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the drug in Marijuana: The Unbiased Truth about the World’s Most Popular Weed. Through research-based historical, scientific, and medical information, Hill will help you sort through what you hear on the streets and in the media and cut straight to the facts. Whether you’re a parent concerned about your child’s use, someone with an illness considering medical marijuana as a treatment option, a user who has questions about its effect on your health, or if you’re just trying to make up your mind about legalization, this book will give you the most current and unbiased information you need to make informed decisions about marijuana.