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Dying to Get High

Marijuana as Medicine

Szerző: Wendy Chapkis, Richard J. Webb

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

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Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decad...

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Szerző

Wendy Chapkis, Richard J. Webb

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2008

oldal

272

EAN

9780814716663

ISBN

0814716660

Enbook ID

04930914

Kiadó

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Súly

476

Méretek

153 x 229 x 20

Teljes leírás

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 co-operative 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.