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Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State: Ongoing regulation, resistance and change

Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State: Ongoing regulation, resistance and change

Williams, Stewart
Warf, Barney

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General SociologyGeography

ISBN10: 0367218623
ISBN13: 9780367218621
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 14 2019
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.60
Language: English

Though any psychoactive substance can be revered or reviled as a drug, as people's cultural norms shift, ultimately its status is determined in law by the state. This publication explores the regulation of drugs - alcohol and cannabis to heroin and cocaine - and practices such as social drinking and public injecting under political regimes. Drugs are discussed in their geographical contexts: the colonial legacy of cannabis prohibition for bioprospecting in Africa; the veracity of the persistent notion of the narco-state; Turkey's governance of drinking amid civil unrest; and alcohol's place in the neoliberal political economy of Ireland. In addition, drug policies are examined: from problems in managing drug-related litter in the UK to supervised injecting facility provision in Australia; harm reduction in Canada; and the global network of drug policy activists. Place is significant, but porous borders, territorial overlaps and multi-scalar linkages are influential in remaking the world through current challenges to the 'war on drugs'. This book was originally published as a special issue of Space & Polity.

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