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