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Newest firstThe medicalisation of marijuana has occurred rapidly, albeit nonuniformly, across the US and around the world over the past 3 decades. This paper centres on the medicalisation of marijuana in Minnesota-which has one of the most restrictive programs in the country-as a case for evaluating the negotiation of institutional boundaries with the shift from criminalisation to medicalisation after nearly a century of crim…
Open article record in new tab ↗Aim This article traces recent developments in Danish cannabis policy, by exploring how "cannabis use" is problematised and governed within different co-existing policy areas. Background Recently, many countries have changed their cannabis policy by introducing medical cannabis and/or by moving toward legalisation or decriminalisation. Researchers have thus argued that traditional notions of cannabis as a singular…
Open article record in new tab ↗Aims In October 2019, a citizens' initiative to decriminalise cannabis use started a large debate about drug policy in Finland. This study examines online discussions about the initiative to supplement the current knowledge about citizens' drug opinions. The focus is especially on argumentation techniques that are used to support or object to the decriminalisation. Design Methodologically, the study is based on di…
Open article record in new tab ↗Aim This study analyses discourses on marijuana in the Polish daily press and explores ways of defining "the marijuana problem" during a debate about legalisation of medical marijuana. Methods 384 press articles published in three national newspapers in 2015-2016 were analysed. The method used was discourse analysis. The theoretical background was social constructionism, including Spector and Kitsuse's four-stage…
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