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Best paper, PAQ 2022

Congratulations to Barbara Patrick and Aaron C. Rollins on the selection of their paper, "Delivering Culturally Competent and Equitable Police Services Via Social Media: Assessing Two Way Dialogue between Police Agencies and Vulnerable Citizens" as the best paper published by PAQ in 2022. We are pleased to make this scholarship freely available here.

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call for papers: nonprofit management for social change

ASPA's Section on Nonprofit Management has issued a call for papers for a symposium to explore how nonprofit and philanthropic research and practice might embrace its interdisciplinarity by developing theories and methodological approaches to challenge traditional ways of understanding and address wicked problems facing communities today. We invite you to submit original manuscripts on methodological approaches to nonprofit and philanthropic studies that embrace interdisciplinarity in a number of ways. Please see the attached for more details.

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PAQ Articles

Veterans and Medical Cannabis: A Perfect Federalism Storm

Daniel J. Mallinson & Francisco Puello
PAQ, Vol. 47 No. 3, 347-373 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.37808/paq.47.3.6

Lingering federal prohibition of cannabis sales and possession creates myriad problems for state-legal users. This is particularly the case for military veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has issued confusing guidance at times regarding the ability of veterans to access state-legal medical cannabis and how VA doctors can advise their patients. This paper will examine the ways that veterans can fall through the cracks in accessing state-legal medical cannabis for the treatment of service-related chronic illnesses like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury (TBI). It begins with a review of the research specific to cannabis as a treatment for PTSD, pain, and TBI. It then reviews the history and present scope of states that include these as approved conditions under their medical cannabis programs. The article then turns to discussing the evolving guidance provided by the VA to patients and doctors and federal restrictions on efficacy research. The article concludes by discussing the administrative burdens veterans face accessing state-legal medical cannabis and how they will be compounded as states begin legalizing medical uses for other controlled substances like psylocibin mushrooms and MDMA (ecstasy).

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