LEADER 04075nam 22005775 450 001 9910480271803321 005 20210716014233.0 010 $a0-8147-9009-7 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814790090 035 $a(CKB)2670000000155532 035 $a(EBL)866082 035 $a(OCoLC)779828407 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000607098 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11415948 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607098 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10584648 035 $a(PQKB)10855841 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866082 035 $a(OCoLC)794701070 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse10233 035 $a(DE-B1597)547418 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814790090 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000155532 100 $a20200723h20092009 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---uunuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDying to Get High $eMarijuana as Medicine /$fWendy Chapkis, Richard J. Webb 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2009] 210 4$dİ2009 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-1667-9 311 0 $a0-8147-1666-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 211-244) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Shamans and Snake Oil Salesmen --$t2. Set and Setting --$t3. The Greening of Modern Medicine --$t4. ?Potheads Scamming the System? --$t5. Cannabis and Consciousness --$t6. Mother?s Milk and the Muffin Man --$t7. Love Grows Here --$t8. Lessons in Endurance and Impermanence --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Authors 330 $aDying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing! Warring Wines; ?You Want to Fight??; Nurse Mary Jane in Santa Cruz High Times interviews the authors Alternet excerpt of the book ("How Pot Became Demonized")Discussion from the Santa Cruz Metro 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. 606 $aMarijuana$xTherapeutic use$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMarijuana$xTherapeutic use 676 $a615.32345 700 $aChapkis$b Wendy$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01030997 702 $aWebb$b Richard J.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910480271803321 996 $aDying to Get High$92448162 997 $aUNINA