Date of Award

8-16-2013

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Radio-Television, MSMC

First Advisor

Mary Jackson Pitts

Committee Members

Collin Pillow; Michael Bowman

Abstract

The issue of medical marijuana is a highly political issue within today's media coverage. At the core of the debate, is the nature of state's rights issues versus federal law supremacy. But most people don't know there was a time when medical marijuana was legal and openly used by pharmacists and doctors to treat various medical conditions. This documentary will explore the medical marijuana debate from a historical perspective of how the Federal Bureau of Narcotics changed the laws and public perception of a once widely used medical treatment during the 1930s. By examining communications theories including propaganda, framing theory, agenda setting, and gatekeeping, one will be able to see how the strategies used by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics forever changed the public perception of medical marijuana.

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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