How the use of marijuana was criminalized and medicalized, 1906-2004 : a Foucaultian history of legislation in America / Jeffrey Matthew London ; with a foreword by Robert M. Regoli
Introduction -- The three stages of deviant designation -- Kendall and Wickham's method -- Archaeology of marijuana criminalization -- A genealogy of marijuana medicalization -- Conclusion
Summary
This book investigates the social construction of the processes of marijuana criminalization and marijuana medicalization. It is the first substantive study on the subject to include a detailed historical context in which to situate a new theoretical model for examining the contemporary U.S. drug policy debate