Schimmoeller Ethan
College of Medicine, The University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Linacre Q. 2019 Feb;86(1):47-55. doi: 10.1177/0024363919834475. Epub 2019 Mar 4.
Ohio's first medical marijuana dispensaries will open in the fall of 2018, so physicians, then, must decide whether they will participate. But is medical marijuana really medical? No, at best, it is an unproven botanical. Medicine today is progressively moving away from traditional understandings of health according to formal and final causation and toward wellness as an expanding, subjective ideal. Whereas patients are healthy if the doctor says so, patients are well if they say so. Pitched as a wellness product, cannabis presents itself as an existential palliative, part of an imminent cult of the body. Consequently, people often use cannabis to escape reality according to a new age mythos. Physicians can play their part by choosing not to certify for "medical" marijuana and seek to rediscover the body as more than mere dead matter in motion rather than insulating ourselves from the difficult questions of suffering, meaning, and purpose.
Despite state-level legality, medical marijuana is not medical. Rather, it is often touted as part of a to escape suffering and death.
俄亥俄州的首批医用大麻药房将于2018年秋季开业，因此医生们必须决定是否参与其中。但医用大麻真的能治病吗？不，充其量它只是一种未经证实的植物药。如今的医学正逐渐背离基于形式因和目的因的传统健康观念，转而将健康视为一种不断扩展的主观理想状态。以前如果医生说病人健康，那病人就是健康的，而现在只要病人自己说感觉良好，那就是健康的。大麻作为一种保健产品，将自己呈现为一种存在主义的慰藉品，是即将兴起的身体崇拜的一部分。因此，人们常常根据一种新时代的神话，用大麻来逃避现实。医生可以通过选择不为“医用”大麻开具证明来发挥自己的作用，并努力重新认识身体，而不仅仅将其视为运动中的无生命物质，而不是回避有关痛苦、意义和目的这些难题。
尽管在州一级是合法的，但医用大麻并非真正的药物。相反，它常被吹捧为逃避痛苦和死亡的一种方式。
