Aim:

This study examines the discursive construction of medical cannabis in Swedish newspapers, with the aim of understanding how the news media recontextualise the medical potential of cannabis.

Design:

The study is centred on the concept of recontextualisation, which focuses on how discourses are reinterpreted and reshaped when moving from one context to another, with a special focus on recontextualisation in relation to the media. Methodologically, the study uses critical discourse analysis to qualitatively analyse 134 articles of different subgenres, published in four Swedish newspapers between 2015 and 2020.

Results:

The study shows that medical cannabis is constructed around myriad topics and contexts, ranging from news that focuses on the medical potential of cannabis to articles where medical cannabis is mentioned in passing and constructed in a more abstract form. The media have difficulties retaining a conceptual boundary between medical and recreational cannabis. Moreover, the study shows that the medical potential of cannabis is discursively constructed using three different discourses: patient discourse, strong science discourse, and weak science discourse.

Conclusions:

The study suggests that there is a widening of the debate on cannabis in the Swedish public sphere, giving more recognition to the potential medical use of cannabis. The media, however, show difficulties in refining discourses on medical cannabis, which results in an altering between constructions that are strongly connected to science, and those that are not.

中文翻译：

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在事实与模棱两可之间：瑞典报纸上关于医用大麻的论述

目的：

本研究考察了瑞典报纸上对医用大麻的论述结构，旨在了解新闻媒体如何将大麻的医疗潜力重新置于语境中。

设计：

该研究以再语境化的概念为中心，重点关注话语从一种语境转移到另一种语境时如何被重新解释和重塑，特别关注与媒体相关的再语境化。在方法论上，该研究使用批判性话语分析对 2015 年至 2020 年间在四家瑞典报纸上发表的 134 篇不同子类型的文章进行定性分析。

结果：

该研究表明，医用大麻是围绕无数主题和背景构建的，从关注大麻医疗潜力的新闻到顺便提及医用大麻并以更抽象的形式构建的文章。媒体很难在医疗和娱乐大麻之间保持概念界限。此外，该研究表明，大麻的医学潜力是使用三种不同的话语来构建的：患者话语、强科学话语和弱科学话语。

结论：

该研究表明，瑞典公共领域关于大麻的辩论正在扩大，对大麻的潜在医疗用途给予了更多的认可。然而，媒体在完善有关医用大麻的话语方面表现出困难，这导致与科学密切相关的结构与不与科学密切相关的结构之间发生变化。