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Life in Pain Affective Economy and the Demand for Pain Relief
Life in Pain
John L. Fitzgerald
Life in Pain Affective Economy and the Demand for Pain Relief
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John L. Fitzgerald School of Social and Political Sciences University of Melbourne Parkville, VIC, Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-5639-0 ISBN 978-981-10-5640-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5640-6
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Preface
Ronnie is a walk-in cannabis dealer in Melbourne, Australia. He deals in small bags of around $20–$50. He used to be a speed dealer, but there is a more aggressive speed dealer living at the end of the street now, and he can’t afford to compete with him, purely on the risk of violence. Instead, he mostly moves small quantities of cannabis for friends, family members and acquaintances, who come to his house every couple of days and buy small bags of leaf and head. He has a glass bong on the living room coffee table amidst all the magazines and cutup cigarettes. The room is dark and moist; it is public housing. It is a Thursday afternoon in winter, and the sun only just peeks over the treeline in the backyard barely visible through the kitchen window. The sunlight doesn’t go all the way from the kitchen into the living room. Instead, the pale oven globe gives off a faint glow which guides the way between the two main rooms in this two bedroom units. “There’s some dinner in the oven if you want it”, he offers. A couple of fish fingers, bubbling with fat, cast a pungent oily vapour trail though the other stale smells. This is Ronnie’s dinner. “It’s all I got, Mel’s in hospital again” he looks away, embarr
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