RT Article
T1 Toking their way sober: alcoholics and marijuana as folk medicine
JF Contemporary justice review
VO 10
IS 3
SP 307
OP 322
A1 Lenza, Michael
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1881069729
AB In this exploratory study, 18 semistructured life-history interviews were conducted with heavy drinkers who substituted marijuana for their alcohol use. Folk knowledge on the efficacy of marijuana in self-treatment for alcoholism, particularly associative depression and anxiety disorders, is examined. The study views the impacts of alcohol and marijuana on the subjects’ ability to sustain viable normative selves in their daily interaction orders. Other instrumental uses of marijuana, consciousness expansion and social facilitation, are also presented as well as how normative dosages of marijuana can be socially constructed and transmitted within rituals of use.
K1 Alcoholism Treatment
K1 Medicinal Marijuana
K1 Marijuana Use
K1 Consciousness Expansion
DO 10.1080/10282580701526112