Stigma among California’s Medical Marijuana Patients

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 10-17

  Satterlund, Travis D ^a   Lee, Juliet P ^b   Moore, Roland S ^b  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^b the Prevention Research Center of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation   (United States)

Author keywords

California; medical marijuana; patients; policy; qualitative; stigma

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL CANNABIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CANNABIS USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POLICY; PRESCRIPTION; PURCHASING; RECREATION; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOCIAL NETWORK; STIGMA; CALIFORNIA; CANNABIS SMOKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FAMILY RELATION; FRIEND; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; PATIENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL STIGMA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CALIFORNIA; FAMILY RELATIONS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MALE; MARIJUANA SMOKING; MEDICAL MARIJUANA; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENTS; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL STIGMA;

EID: 84924196308     PISSN: 02791072     EISSN: 21599777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02791072.2014.991858     Document Type: Article

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