The Cannabis Experience: An Analysis of "Flow"

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 50-61

  Hathaway, Andrew D ^a   Sharpley, Justin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alcohol as social lubricator stripped of its reputation medicinal ingredient or tonic; Being "high," not an impairment benefit of using marijuana; Cannabinoids and cannabinoid receptors use of cannabis, homeostasis, equilibrium or balance; Cannabis experience analysis of "flow"; Cannabis experience, users reporting euphoria or feelings of wellbeing altered awareness and time perception; Cannabis sativa indica species, marijuana subjectively experienced and understood by users; Holistic conceptions of health inexorable connections between body, mind and spirit; Investigating consciousness and consciousness expansion; Modern understanding of cannabis reefer madness, drug war, propaganda, plain lies and mistruths; Neglect of altered consciousness in Western science and culture language of clinicians and lawmakers, hegemonic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880541084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324440.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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