Niklaus Reichle

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    Auf einem Auge blind. Wie Forschung den Konsum bewusstseinsverändernder Substanzen medikalisiert
    (Springer Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2025)
    Niklaus Reichle  
    ;
    Florian Elliker  
    ;
    Ernst von Kardorff
    ;
    Martin Harbusch
    ;
    Dominik Robin
    This chapter discusses the discursive construction of consciousness-altering substances and their changing meanings. While cannabis and psychedelics were criminalized for a long time, a rehabilitation is emerging. The differentiation of the previously hegemonic medical-psychiatric discourse plays a central role. The example of psychedelics shows how their former negative medicalization as harmful substances is increasingly being supplemented by a framing as remedies. This represents a discursive narrowing that ignores the diversity of non-problematic uses. In the case of cannabis, too, it can be seen how the existing field of forces between politics, state administration and science leads to the Swiss pilot trials investigating non-medical use predominantly from a medical and prevention-oriented perspective. Parallel to the liberalization efforts, the “market economy” discourse is gaining in importance, in whose neoclassical form only profit-oriented production and trade models are conceivable. This also represents a narrow view that marginalizes the investigation of appropriate, non-commercial or not exclusively commercial economies of consciousness-altering substances.
    Type:book section
    DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-47031-9
    URI:https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/119059