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The Medicalization of Marijuana - Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience (Paperback)
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The Medicalization of Marijuana - Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience (Paperback)
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Winner of the Donald W. Light Award for the Applied or Public
Practice of Medical Sociology 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, Newhart and 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.
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