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

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

Edited by Stewart (University of Tasmania, Australia) Williams, Barney (University of Kansas, USA) Warf

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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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