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Author_Tom Decorte
cannabis
Cannabis Consumption
Cannabis Cultivation
Cannabis Eradication
Cannabis Growers
Cannabis Industry
Cannabis Market
Cannabis Plants
Cannabis Social Clubs
Cannabis Users
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Co-offending Networks
comparative cannabis cultivation practices
cultivation
cultivators
domestic
Domestic Cannabis Cultivation
domestic plant production
drug
Drug Crop
Drug Crop Eradication
drug policy analysis
Dutch Coffee Shops
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Eradication Efforts
Growing Operations
harm reduction strategies
illicit crop eradication
Indoor Cultivation
journal
market
Medical Cannabis
National Cannabis
plants
policy
Potter 2010b
Seizure Rate
social network analysis drugs
THC
THC Content
Traditional Producer Nations
transnational drug markets
users
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138256842
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For the majority of its history, the cultivation of cannabis did not stand out, at least compared to the cultivation of other illegal plants. Cannabis plantations, like coca bush or opium poppy plantations, were typically large in size, grown by local farmers in a handful of developing (producing) countries, processed and then exported to industrial (consuming) nations. While cocaine and heroin are still produced in a handful of developing countries, cannabis cultivation is increasingly universal. From Europe to the Americas and Oceania, import substitution in cannabis markets has been noticed in almost every developed country around the world, with a notable aversion for discrimination. Geographical, technological, cultural and economic factors help to explain why (indoor and outdoor) domestic cultivation is well established, and why the nature and extent of cultivation varies so dramatically across the western, developed nations. As we start the second decade of the 21st century, the new cannabis industry continues to fascinate both casual and academic observers of the drug scene. Researchers around the world have become increasingly interested in the phenomenon, aiming to describe, and potentially explain, the rapid switch from importation to domestic production in their own countries. In bringing together some of the world's leading experts on cannabis cultivation this book contains sixteen chapters that take an interdisciplinary look at global trends in cannabis cultivation. It will serve as an exemplar for wider discussions of key theories and concepts relating to the spread not just of cannabis cultivation, but also of illegal markets more generally, the actors that operate within these markets and the policies and practices that are employed in response to developments within these markets.
Professor Tom Decorte is Director of the Institute for Social Drug Research, Ghent University, Belgium, Dr. Gary Potter is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, London South Bank University, UK and Professor Martin Bouchard is Assistant Professor in the School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
