Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State: Ongoin, Williams, Warf..

Taylor & Francis

Drugs, Law, People, Place and the StateOngoing regulation, resistance and change\nAuthor(s): Stewart Williams, Barney Warf\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138700451, 978-1138700451\nSynopsis\nThough any psychoactive substance can be revered or reviled as a drug, as peoples 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; Turkeys governance of drinking amid civil unrest; and alcohols place in the neoliberal political economy of Ireland. In addition, drug policies are examined: from problems in managing drug-related litter in th.