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Author:
Stolick, Matthew, 1969-
Title:
Otherwise law-abiding citizens : a scientific and moral assessment of cannabis use / Matt Stolick.
Publisher:
Lexington Books,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xii, 393 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Cannabis--Social aspects--United States.
Cannabis--Therapeutic use--United States.
Cannabis--Law and legislation--United States.
Cannabinoids--therapeutic use--United States.
Marijuana Smoking--legislation & jurisprudence--United States.
Legislation, Drug--United States.
Philosophy, Medical--United States.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-379) and index.
Contents:
The two realities that dictate the meaning of cannabis use in the U.S. -- The plant-brain connection : the neurological truth about cannabis use -- Experienced and therapeutic effects of cannabis use -- The acute and chronic harms associated with cannabis use -- Western responses to the unknown : foundational events creating the social reality of cannabis use -- Revealing the current social reality of cannabis use in the United States -- Utilitarianism, on liberty, and cannabis use -- A Kantian assessment of cannabis use and law -- Aristotle on cannabis use and law : the means of temperance and justice -- Old testament and cannabis -- Christian ethics and cannabis use -- The essence of cannabis law : avoiding change at all costs.
ISBN:
0739131613 (eISBN)
9780739131619 (eISBN)
0739127454 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739127452 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2008029397
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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