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Author Newhart, Michelle, author

Title The medicalization of marijuana : legitimacy, stigma, and the patient experience / Michelle Newhart, William Dolphin
Edition 1st
Published London : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface; Marijuana, Cannabis, and Hemp: A Note on Terms; Introduction: A Tale of Two Patients; Karen's Story; Dale's Story; Karen, Dale, and Medical Cannabis Patients at Midlife in Colorado; 1 The Social Construction of Cannabis Use; From Hemp Medicines to Marijuana and Moral Panic; From Killer Weed to Dropout Drug; From Dropout Drug to Just Say No; From Stoner Culture to Skewed Science; The Process of Medicalization; The Demedicalization of Cannabis; Medical Cannabis Patients and Programs: What We Know
2 The Landscape of Cannabis PolicyUntangling the Layers of Drug Law; Cannabis Research and the Law; Government Responses to State Medical Cannabis Programs; Cannabis and Public Opinion; The Structure of Medical Cannabis Regulation in Colorado; 3 Becoming a Patient; The Four Routes for Seeking a Recommendation; Giving Medical Cannabis a "Test Run"; 4 Cannabis and the Doctor-Patient Interaction; Medical Cannabis as a Contested Treatment; Modeling Doctor-Patient Interactions; Uncertainty in the Doctor-Patient Interaction; The "Doctor Mill" as Constructive Medicalization
Identity Work in the Recommendation Setting5 Medical Cannabis Use in Everyday Life; Drug, Set, and Setting; Reinterpreting Cannabis the Drug; Know Thy Medicine: Patient Knowledge; 6 Changing the Set: Creating Medical Routines of Cannabis Use; Methods of Ingestion; Amounts and Managing Effects; Off-Label" Medical Uses; Applying Medical Models Across Drug Types; 7 The Power of Place: Changes to Setting; Using Cannabis Alone; Setting and the Distinction Between Medical and Recreational Uses; Age as a Setting; 8 Stereotypes, Stigma, and Mitigating Risk; Identifying with Cannabis: Practical Risks
Stereotype, Stigma, and Identity Work9 Strategies for Managing and Changing Cannabis Stigma; Coming Out" for Cannabis: Stigma and Disclosing Use; Patients as a Thought Community; Flipping the Coin from Stigma to Prejudice; 10 Beyond Medicalization: Healthism and Pharmaceuticalization; Healthism and Harms; Pharmaceuticalization; Conclusion: Medicalization and the Future of Cannabis Medicine; The Effects of Cannabis Liberalization; Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research; Final Thoughts; Appendix A: Research Methods; Appendix B: Annotated Index of Patients; Index
Summary 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, Newhartand 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
Notes Preface Marijuana, Cannabis, and Hemp: A Note on Terms Introduction: A Tale of Two Patients Chapter 1: The Social Construction of Cannabis Use Chapter 2: The Landscape of Cannabis Policy Chapter 3: Becoming a Patient Chapter 4: Cannabis and the Doctor-Patient Interaction Chapter 5: Medical Cannabis Use in Everyday Life Chapter 6: Changing the Set: Creating Medical Routines of Cannabis Use Chapter 7: The Power of Place: Changes to Setting Chapter 8: Stereotypes, Stigma, and Mitigating Risk Chapter 9: Strategies for Managing and Changing Cannabis Stigma Chapter 10: Beyond Medicalization: Healthism and Pharmaceuticalization Conclusion: Medicalization and the Future of Cannabis Medicine Appendix A: Research Methods Appendix B: Annotated Index of Patients by Pseudonym Index
Subject Marijuana -- Therapeutic use -- United States
Marijuana -- Law and legislation -- United States
Medical Marijuana
Marijuana Use
Cannabis
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Addicition Studies.
Aging and the Life Course.
Behaviorial Studies.
Cannabis.
Counterculture.
Criminality.
Deviance.
Deviant Behavior.
Drug Law.
Drug Policy.
Healthism.
Health Policy.
Health Reform.
Identity Politics.
Mental Health.
Pharmacology.
Psychology.
Public Policy.
Regulation.
Marijuana -- Law and legislation
Marijuana -- Therapeutic use
United States
Form Electronic book
Author Dolphin, William, author
ISBN 9780429833779
0429833776
9780429833786
0429833784
9780429833762
0429833768
9780429450464
042945046X