Cannabis - Philosophy for Everyone : What Were We Just Talking About?

by Allhoff, Fritz; Jacquette, Dale; Cusick, Rick

• ISBN13: 9781444324440
• ISBN10: 1444324446
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-08-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The debate on the status and legality of cannabis continues to gain momentum. Here, personal anecdotes combined with academic and scientific reports combine to sharpen some of the fascinating philosophical issues associated with cannabis use. A frank, professionally informed and playful discussion of cannabis usage in relation to philosophical inquiry Considers the meaning of a 'high', the morality of smoking marijuana for pleasure, the slippery slope to more dangerous drugs, and the human drive to alter our consciousness Not only incorporates contributions from philosophers, psychologists, sociologists or legal, pharmacological, and medical experts, but also non-academics associated with the cultivation, distribution, and sale of cannabis Brings together an international team of writers from the United States, Canada, UK, Finland, Switzerland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Iran

Author Biography

Editor
Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. His many previous works include Wittgenstein’s Thought in Transition (1998), Ontology (2002), David Hume’s Critique of Infinity (2001), and The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (2005). He has edited the Blackwell Companion to Philosophical Logic (2002), the Cambridge Companion to Brentano (2004), and the Elsevier volume on Philosophy of Logic (2006) in the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science series.

Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).

Table of Contents

Foreword (Richard Cusick).

Preface (Dale Jacquette).

Introduction: What is Cannabis and How Can We Get Some? (Dale Jacquette).

PART I CANNABIS PHENOMENOLOGY.

1 A Cannabis Odyssey (Lester Grinspoon).

2 Seeing Snakes: On Delusion, Knowledge, and the Drug Experience (G. T. Roche).

3 The Cannabis Experience: An Analysis of "Flow" (Andrew D. Hathaway and Justin Sharpley).

PART II MARIJUANA AND SPIRITUAL ENLIGHTENMENT.

4 Buzz, High, and Stoned: Metaphor, Meaning, and the Cannabis Experience (Michael Montagne).

5 The Great Escape (Charles Taliaferro and Michel Le Gall).

6 Cannabis and the Human Condition: "Something of the Kind is Indispensable"(Brian R. Clack).

PART III CREATIVELY HIGH.

7 Hallucinatory Terror: The World of the Hashish Eater (Tommi Kakko).

8 Marijuana and Creativity (Ryan E. Holt and James C. Kaufman).

9 Navigating Creative Inner Space on the Innocent Pleasures of Hashish (Dale Jacquette).

PART IV PSYCHO-SOCIOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF CANNABIS CULTURE.

10 Cannabis and the Culture of Alienation (Mark Thorsby).

11 Reefer Madness: Cannabis, the Individual, and Public Policy (Tuomas E. Tahko).

12 Soft vs. Hard: Why Drugs are Not Like Eggs (Brian Penrose).

PART V CANNABIS ETHICS AND POLITICS.

13 "Smoking Pot Doesn't Hurt Anyone But Me!" Why Adults Should be Allowed to Consume Cannabis (Jack Green Musselman, Russ Frohardt, and D. G. Lynch).

14 Pot Politics: Prohibition and Morality (Mitch Earleywine).

15 Cannabis and the Good Life: Needs, Capabilities, and Human Flourishing (Theodore Schick, Jr.)

16 Weakness of Will: The Cannabis Connection (Michael Funke).

Notes on Contributors.