Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine

by Wendy Chapkis, Richard Webb, Richard J. Webb

Book Overview

An inside look at how patients living with terminal illness created one of the country's first medical marijuana collectives

Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decades. Despite overwhelming public support and growing scientific evidence of its therapeutic effects (relief of the nausea caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS, control over seizures or spasticity caused by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814716679
• ISBN13: 9780814716670
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"