Green Hope : Perspectives on Cannabis from People who Use Opioids
While states are implementing policies to legalize cannabis for medical or recreational purposes, it remains a Schedule 1 controlled substance with no medical uses according to US federal law. The perception of cannabis depends on social and cultural norms that impact political institutions involved...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Sociological inquiry. - 1981. - 91(2021), 3 vom: 15. Aug., Seite 668-695 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2021
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Sociological inquiry |
| Schlagworte: | Journal Article Alcohol Community and Urban Sociology Crime Deviance Drugs and Tobacco Law Sociological Practice & Public Sociology |
| Zusammenfassung: | While states are implementing policies to legalize cannabis for medical or recreational purposes, it remains a Schedule 1 controlled substance with no medical uses according to US federal law. The perception of cannabis depends on social and cultural norms that impact political institutions involved in implementing policy. Because of negative social constructions, such as the "gateway hypothesis," legalization of cannabis has been slow and contentious. Recent studies suggest that cannabis can help combat the opioid epidemic. This paper fills a gap in our understanding of how cannabis is viewed by people who are actively misusing opioids and not in treatment. Using ethnographic methods to recruit participants living in a state that legalized cannabis and a state where cannabis was illegal, survey and interview data were analyzed informed by a social constructionist lens. Findings from their "insider perspective" suggest that for some people struggling with problematic opioid use, cannabis can be beneficial |
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| Beschreibung: | Date Revised 02.08.2022 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 0038-0245 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/soin.12359 |