Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone: What Were We Just Talking About?

Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone: What Were We Just Talking About?

Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone: What Were We Just Talking About?

Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone: What Were We Just Talking About?

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781405199674
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 10/11/2010
Series: Philosophy for Everyone Series , #22
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Editor
DALE JACQUETTE is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Series Editor
FRITZ ALLHOFF is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.

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Table of Contents

Foreword Richard Cusick xii

Preface Dale Jacquette xv

Introduction: What is Cannabis and How Can We Get Some? Dale Jacquette 1

Part I Cannabis Phenomenology 19

1 A Cannabis Odyssey Lester Grinspoon 21

2 Seeing Snakes: On Delusion, Knowledge, and the Drug Experience G.T. Roche 35

3 The Cannabis Experience: An Analysis of "Flow" Andrew D. Hathaway Justin Sharpley 50

Part II Marijuana and Spiritual Enlightenment 63

4 Buzz, High, and Stoned: Metaphor, Meaning, and the Cannabis Experience Michael Montagne 65

5 The Great Escape Charles Taliaferro Michel Le Gall 77

6 Cannabis and the Human Condition: "Something of the Kind is Indispensable" Brian R. Clack 90

Part III Creatively High 101

7 Hallucinatory Terror: The World of the Hashish Eater Tommi Kakko 103

8 Marijuana and Creativity Ryan E. Holt James C. Kaufman 114

9 Navigating Creative Inner Space on the Innocent Pleasures of Hashish Dale Jacquette 121

Part IV Psycho-Sociological Dimensions of Cannabis Culture 137

10 Cannabis and the Culture of Alienation Mark Thorsby 139

11 Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy Tuomas E. Tahko 149

12 Soft vs. Hard: Why Drugs are Not Like Eggs Brian Penrose 162

Part V Cannabis Ethics and Politics 173

13 "Smoking Pot Doesn't Hurt Anyone But Me!" Why Adults Should be Allowed to Consume Cannabis Jack Green Musselman Russ Frohardt D. G. Lynch 175

14 Pot Politics: Prohibition and Morality Mitch Earleywine 192

15 Cannabis and the Good Life: Needs, Capabilities, and Human Flourishing Theodore Schick, Jr. 214

16 Weakness of Will: The Cannabis Connection Michael Funke 226

Notes on Contributors 236

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