Medicinal cannabis use, impression management, self-presentation, discourse analysis, narrative, Goffman, Bourdieu, drugs

Morris, Craig (2018) ‘You can’t stand on a corner and talk about it …’: Medicinal cannabis use, impression management and the analytical status of interviews. Methodological Innovations, 11 (1). ISSN 2059-7991 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799118768422)

drugs; media; cannabis; newspapers; symbolic boundaries

Morris, Craig (2022) Negotiating ambiguous substance use: UK newspaper representations of self-prescribing medicinal cannabis use in the 1990s. Journal of Drug Issues, 53 (1). pp. 129-144. ISSN 0022-0426 (Print), 1945-1369 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426221090177)

drugs; media; representation; newspapers; substance use; deviance

Morris, Craig and Memari, Laura (2022) Is there a largely consistent discourse on drugs in the UK press? Tabloid or broadsheet, left-leaning or right, does it make much difference? Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture, 22 (1). pp. 92-108. ISSN 1070-8286

medicinal cannabis, discourse, drugs, natural, deviance, stigma, normalization, Bourdieu

Morris, Craig (2019) Medicinal cannabis users downplaying and shifting stigma: Articulations of the ‘natural’, of what is/is not a ‘drug’ and oppositions with ‘chemical’ substances. Sociological Research Online, 25 (3). pp. 350-368. ISSN 1360-7804 (Print), 1360-7804 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/1360780419870814)