The Great Escape

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In Fritz Allhoff & Dale Jacquette (eds.), Cannabis Philosophy for Everyone. Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 77–89 (2010-09-24)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Philosophical Prohibitions Religious Arguments A Defense of Altered States Cannabis in Particular.

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the great escape ‐ cannabis in healthy, useful way and altered states of consciousness, or states of mind   philosophical prohibitions ‐ thinking that using cannabis, altered states being not good   “hypocrisy” derived from Greek hypokrisis ‐ play acting or feigning and problem of falsehood   distortion of reason ‐ portrait of reason and passion in Medea and Bacchae   William James's analysis of nitrous oxide ‐ in terms of case against cannabis   loss of freedom and power of self‐determination and Thomas De Quincey's Confessions Of An English Opium Eater   religious arguments ‐ mustered against cannabis use   Judaism and Christianity, receptive to alcohol use   Early Islamic law prohibiting alcohol ‐ intoxicating behaviors preventing execution of duties   defense of altered states ‐ and replies to problems of falsehood

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