Cannabis in the global market: A comparison between the UK and the Netherlands

Pakes, Francis; Silverstone, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.ijlcj.2011.09.003

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“…From the early 1990s, municipalities near the Dutch border were visited by thousands of international coffee shop tourists every day, leading to diplomatic tensions between the Netherlands and neighbouring countries-and especially with the Chirac government in France, which held the Chapter 9 | Issues in focus ( 65 ) For fuller discussion of the evolution of Dutch drug markets and drugs policy, see Jansen (1989Jansen ( , 2008, Boekhout van Solinge (1996, Korf et al (2001), De Ruyver (2006), van de Bunt (2006), van Ooyen-Houben (2006, Surmont (2007), Fijnaut and De Ruyver (2008) and Pakes and Silverstone (2012). ( 66 ) Coffee shops were not allowed to advertise (A), or sell hard drugs (H) and had to make sure there was no nuisance (O), no people younger than 18 were allowed in the shops (J) and the maximum transaction size was restricted to 5 g per person (G).…”

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New psychoactive substances: reducing the harm caused by untested drugs and an unregulated market

Wodak

2014

Medical Journal of Australia

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New psychoactive substances: reducing the harm caused by untested drugs and an unregulated market

Wodak

2014

Medical Journal of Australia

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“…The form of cannabis used in the UK has shifted with a decline in cannabis 'resin' and increased use of sinsemilla (intensively farmed herbal cannabis, commonly known as 'skunk') (Pakes andSilverstone, 2012, Hardwick andKing, 2008). The shift towards skunk represents an increase in average strength (McLaren et al, 2008) which, fortified by media augmentation (Forsyth, 2005), has given rise to social disquiet and increased politicisation of drug policy agendas (Silverman, 2012).…”

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“…The policing of cannabis cultivation in the UK has historically been wrought by the local discretion of individual police forces, with resources predicting the likelihood of targeting cannabis cultivators (Pakes and Silverstone, 2012). Indeed, in the context of reduced policing budgets many forces have followed advice from the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO, 2012) and deprioritised cannabis cultivation (Gayle, 2015).…”

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Propagating the Haze? Community and professional perceptions of cannabis cultivation and the impacts of prohibition

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Barrett

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International Journal of Drug Policy

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Propagating the Haze? Community and professional perceptions of cannabis cultivation and the impacts of prohibition http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/6855/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LJMU Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain.The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription. had limited knowledge and experience of its production. Across all participant groups, the transmission of accurate information was lacking, with individuals instead drawing on the reductionist drug discourse (Taylor, 2016) to fill knowledge deficits. Consequently, some participants conflated cannabis cultivation with wider prohibitionist constructions of drug markets, resulting in the diffusion of misinformation and an amplification of anxieties. In contrast, other participants construed cultivation as making economic sense during austerity, justifying such tolerance through inverse adherence to the same narrow socio-cultural construction of drugs i.e. that cultivation carried comparatively less harms than real drug markets. Enforcement mechanisms also drew on generic prohibitionist conceptions, assuming cultivators to be unconstrained, autonomous actors in need of punishment; a belief which lacked nuanced understanding of the local terrain where vulnerable individuals cultivating under duress played a key role in the supply chain. The paper concludes with a call for the provision of accessible information/education; the need to challenge and reconceptualise the assumed autonomy and resultant punity directed at all cultivators; and a subsequent need to reassess established forms of legal (and increasingly social) enforcement.2

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Cannabis in the global market: A comparison between the UK and the Netherlands

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

New psychoactive substances: reducing the harm caused by untested drugs and an unregulated market

New psychoactive substances: reducing the harm caused by untested drugs and an unregulated market

Propagating the Haze? Community and professional perceptions of cannabis cultivation and the impacts of prohibition

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