scholarly journals Opioids, (Non)-medical Marijuana, and the Cult of the Body

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan Schimmoeller
Keyword(s):  
Medical Marijuana ◽  
State Level ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries ◽  
Meaning And Purpose ◽  
Medicine Today ◽  
Botanical Medicine

Ohio’s first medical marijuana dispensaries will open in the fall of 2018, so physicians, then, must decide whether they will participate. But is medical marijuana really medical? No, at best, it is an unproven botanical. Medicine today is progressively moving away from traditional understandings of health according to formal and final causation and toward wellness as an expanding, subjective ideal. Whereas patients are healthy if the doctor says so, patients are well if they say so. Pitched as a wellness product, cannabis presents itself as an existential palliative, part of an imminent cult of the body. Consequently, people often use cannabis to escape reality according to a new age mythos. Physicians can play their part by choosing not to certify for “medical” marijuana and seek to rediscover the body as more than mere dead matter in motion rather than insulating ourselves from the difficult questions of suffering, meaning, and purpose. Summary: Despite state-level legality, medical marijuana is not medical. Rather, it is often touted as part of a cult of the body to escape suffering and death.

scholarly journals Tracking and Reporting Outcomes in Medical Marijuana: Establishing Condition Specific State Level Registries

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Paul C Langley
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Medical Marijuana ◽  
State Level ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
Article Type ◽  
On Line ◽  
Quality Framework ◽  
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries ◽  
Rule Making

In a previous commentary in INNOVATIONS in pharmacy, the question was raised as to the questions legislators should ask for the licensing of medical marijuana dispensaries. The case was made that if dispensaries accept they have a duty of care then they should be required to monitor patients over the course of their treatment with botanical cannabis, including hemp based product, to evaluate the response of patients to therapy. One option would be for individual dispensaries (or owners of multiple licenses and dispensary locations) to adopt a registry format and implement an on-line reporting system by registry staff and patients for the conditions being treated. Unfortunately, under present legislative rules for dispensaries there is no incentive for dispensaries to make the necessary investment. It is also unlikely that legislators would be prepared to mandate a registry requirement. The purpose of this commentary is to offer an alternative solution. Rather than dispensary specific registries, a state-wide low cost registry is proposed where dispensaries are required to log in and track patients with specific conditions. In the case of severe pain, a dispensary would log in patients presenting with this condition and the patient tracked over their course of treatment. A further advantage with a statewide registry is that if a patient visits a different dispensary they can still be tracked as they would be identified by their marijuana card number. The ability to track patients by condition, while still resident in a state, would not only minimize the issue of incomplete records, but would provide a comprehensive, research quality framework for evaluating claims for botanical cannabis. This could then provide feedback to legislators and establish a robust basis for rule making.   Article Type: Commentary

scholarly journals Impact of Medical Marijuana Laws on State-Level Marijuana Use by Age and Gender, 2004–2013

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Mauro ◽  
Paul Newswanger ◽  
Julian Santaella-Tenorio ◽  
Pia M. Mauro ◽  
Hannah Carliner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Marijuana ◽  
State Level ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Medical Marijuana Laws

scholarly journals State-level medical marijuana laws, marijuana use and perceived availability of marijuana among the general U.S. population

2016 ◽  
Vol 169 ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia S. Martins ◽  
Christine M. Mauro ◽  
Julian Santaella-Tenorio ◽  
June H. Kim ◽  
Magdalena Cerda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Marijuana ◽  
State Level ◽  
Marijuana Use ◽  
Perceived Availability ◽  
Medical Marijuana Laws

scholarly journals A micro-temporal geospatial analysis of medical marijuana dispensaries and crime in Long Beach, California

Addiction ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 111 (6) ◽  
pp. 1027-1035 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget Freisthler ◽  
William R. Ponicki ◽  
Andrew Gaidus ◽  
Paul J. Gruenewald
Keyword(s):  
Medical Marijuana ◽  
Geospatial Analysis ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Medical Marijuana Dispensaries

Decolonizing the Body Politic: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Mapa/Corpo 2: Interactive Rituals for the New Millennium

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-141
Author(s):  
Laurietz Seda
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Political Regime ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Millennium

Art—or at least the kind we most like to write about—is almost always political, whether it is inter/national or personal; and though TDR has already taken this up in its “War and Other Bad Shit” issue, the topic remains center stage. In his review of Dutch theatre troupe Dood Paard's medEia, Jacob Gallagher-Ross notes the emergence of “a new age of the chorus” in which spectatorship becomes inseparable from paralyzed witnessing and Medea's tragedy is reconceived as a metaphor for the West's tragic relations with the East. Laurietz Seda explores Guillermo Gómez-Peña's recent performance/installation Mapa/Corpo 2: Interactive Rituals for the New Millennium, a fluid piece that, like much of the artist's recent work, addresses the xenophobia and “war on difference” that underlies the US's ongoing War on Terror. The Burmese stand-up trio the Moustache Brothers is the subject of Xan Colman and Tamara Searle's personal account of how performance can be both art and resistance in a contradictory and charged political regime.

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