Medical Marijuana and Social Control: Escaping Criminalization and Embracing Medicalization
Medical Marijuana and Social Control: Escaping Criminalization and Embracing Medicalization
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10.1080/01639625.2012.735608
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
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1.6
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O'Brien, Patrick K.
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作者：
O'Brien, Patrick K.
大麻的医疗化代表了整个美国不断发展的趋势，但研究人员尚未关注使用者获得大麻许可证的原因，或者合法医疗化行业出现的国家控制方法的变化。在本文中，我通过对40名大学生持卡人的深度访谈和参与观察，考察了大学生获得医用大麻卡的动机，以及他们从非法和不受监管的市场转向国家批准和控制的市场所经历的社会学习和再社会化过程。我分析了将大麻医疗化作为新的犯罪控制文化的一部分(Garland 2001)，展示了与定罪相比，法律-医疗模式如何在社会的结构、文化和互动层面为国家提供了有效的社会控制形式。最后，我讨论了国家从这一法律医疗化中获得的关于犯罪后果和犯罪原因的好处。
The medicalization of marijuana represents an evolving trend across the United States, yet researchers have yet to focus on the reasons users obtain cannabis licenses or the changing methods of State control that emerge in the legal-medicalized industry. In this article I draw on 40 in-depth interviews and participant observation with undergraduate cardholders to examine college students' motivations to get medical marijuana cards and the process of social learning and resocialization they undergo in shifting away from an illicit and unregulated market to one that is State-sanctioned and controlled. I analyze the medicalization of cannabis as part of a new culture of crime control (Garland 2001), showing how, in contrast to criminalization, the legal-medical model offers the State potent forms of social control at the structural, cultural, and interactional levels of society. I conclude with a discussion of the benefits gained by the State from this legal-medicalization on both the effects and causes of crime.