Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone

✍ Scribed by Dale Jacquette (ed.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 250
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use. 

• A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion of cannabis usage in relation to philosophical inquiry
• Considers the meaning of a ‘high’, the morality of smoking marijuana for pleasure, the slippery slope to more dangerous drugs, and the human drive to alter our consciousness
• Not only incorporates contributions from philosophers, psychologists, sociologists or legal, pharmacological, and medical experts, but also non-academics associated with the cultivation, distribution, and sale of cannabis
• Brings together an international team of writers from the United States, Canada, UK, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa, and New Zealand

Content:
Chapter 1 A Cannabis Odyssey (pages 21–34): Lester Grinspoon
Chapter 2 Seeing Snakes (pages 35–49): G. T. Roche
Chapter 3 The Cannabis Experience (pages 50–61): Andrew D. Hathaway and Justin Sharpley
Chapter 4 Buzz, High, and Stoned (pages 65–76): Michael Montagne
Chapter 5 The Great Escape (pages 77–89): Charles Taliaferro and Michel Le Gall
Chapter 6 Cannabis and the Human Condition (pages 90–99): Brian R. Clack
Chapter 7 Hallucinatory Terror (pages 103–113): Tommi Kakko
Chapter 8 Marijuana and Creativity (pages 114–120): Ryan E. Holt and James C. Kaufman
Chapter 9 Navigating Creative Inner Space on the Innocent Pleasures of Hashish (pages 121–136): Dale Jacquette
Chapter 10 Cannabis and the Culture of Alienation (pages 139–148): Mark Thorsby
Chapter 11 Reefer Madness (pages 149–161): Tuomas E. Tahko
Chapter 12 Soft vs. Hard (pages 162–172): Brian Penrose
Chapter 13 “Smoking Pot Doesn't Hurt Anyone But Me!” (pages 175–191): Jack Green Musselman, Russ Frohardt and D. G. Lynch
Chapter 14 Pot Politics (pages 192–213): Mitch Earleywine
Chapter 15 Cannabis and the Good Life (pages 214–225): Theodore Schick
Chapter 16 Weakness of Will (pages 226–235): Michael Funke