The Resource Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine, Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb
Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine, Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- ix, 257 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780814716670
- Label
- Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine
- Title
- Dying to get high
- Title remainder
- marijuana as medicine
- Statement of responsibility
- Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb
- Subject
-
- Cannabinoïdes -- Emploi en thérapeutique -- États-Unis
- Cannabis
- Cannabis -- États-Unis
- Chronic Disease -- drug therapy
- Maladies chroniques -- Chimiothérapie -- États-Unis
- Marihuana
- Marihuana -- Emploi en thérapeutique -- États-Unis
- Marijuana -- Therapeutic use
- Marijuana -- Therapeutic use -- United States
- Marijuana Smoking -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Pharmakotherapie
- Phytotherapy
- USA
- United States
- United States
- Wo-Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Cannabinoids -- therapeutic use
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chapkis, W.
- Dewey number
- 615/.32345
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RM666.C266
- LC item number
- C53 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
-
- 2008 J-352
- WB 925
- NLM item number
- C463d 2008
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Webb, Richard J
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Wo-Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Marijuana
- Cannabis
- Cannabinoids
- Phytotherapy
- Chronic Disease
- Marijuana Smoking
- United States
- Marihuana
- Cannabis
- Cannabinoïdes
- Maladies chroniques
- Marihuana
- Pharmakotherapie
- USA
- Marijuana
- United States
- Label
- Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine, Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn182528975
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- ix, 257 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814716670
- Lccn
- 2008007095
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o182528975
- (OCoLC)182528975
- Label
- Dying to get high : marijuana as medicine, Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn182528975
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- ix, 257 pages
- Isbn
- 9780814716670
- Lccn
- 2008007095
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o182528975
- (OCoLC)182528975
Subject
- Cannabinoïdes -- Emploi en thérapeutique -- États-Unis
- Cannabis
- Cannabis -- États-Unis
- Chronic Disease -- drug therapy
- Maladies chroniques -- Chimiothérapie -- États-Unis
- Marihuana
- Marihuana -- Emploi en thérapeutique -- États-Unis
- Marijuana -- Therapeutic use
- Marijuana -- Therapeutic use -- United States
- Marijuana Smoking -- legislation & jurisprudence
- Pharmakotherapie
- Phytotherapy
- USA
- United States
- United States
- Wo-Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
- Cannabinoids -- therapeutic use
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