2019 - 2020

0662-1755-01
  Cannabis: a Critique of Medicine, Culture and Science                                                
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
Daniel MishoriGilman-humanities280Sun1000-1200 Sem  2
 
 
University credit hours:  2.0

Course description

Two major reforms are currently being implemented in Israel: the medicalization of cannabis, by the Ministry of Health, and the de-criminalization reform in the Ministry of Public Security, both of which are an alternative to the legalization of cannabis. In the 20th century, cannabis became illegal and demonized, as part of a new category of "illegal drugs." This category prevents cannabis from being used today in a wide range of important ecological, industrial and economic roles. Instead, it is being replaced by a variety of polluting industries and synthetic products. As an alternative, cannabis becomes a disruptive concept that challenges various industries, institutional medicine and the science behind them, especially the methodologies for risk assessment and scientific and social decision making. The course will discuss the history of cannabis, its past and present encounter with medicine, bioethics of medicine, and the extent to which cannabis undermines the basic concepts of modern medicine, etc. The course will discuss the idea that existing legislation violates human rights and basic rights that have not yet been protected by legislation, such as the right to different states of consciousness, as part of freedom of thought and freedom of conscience. The course will include guest lecturers.

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