@article{1480314,
      recid = {1480314},
      author = {Chapkis, Wendy,  and Webb, Richard J., },
      title = {Dying to Get High : Marijuana as Medicine /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Dying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing!Warring  Wines; 'You Want to Fight?'; Nurse Mary Jane in Santa  CruzHigh Times interviews the authorsAlternet excerpt of  the book ("How Pot Became Demonized")Discussion from the  Santa Cruz MetroMarijuana 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480314},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814790090.001.0001},
}