Legalizing Cannabis: Experiences, Lessons and Scenarios

ISBN-13: 9781138370906 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 448 str.

Tom Decorte; Simon Lenton; Chris Wilkins

Opis

This book examines cannabis policies and reform, offers an inter-disciplinary (but social-science led) account of global trends, and explores policy evaluation, models for legalization, and lessons that can be drawn from attempts to regulate other psychoactive substances.

 

 

Spis treści

Introduction;  PART I : THE NEW LEGAL CANNABIS MARKETS; 1.The uneven repeal of cannabis prohibition in the United States; 2.Practical lessons learned from the first years of the regulated recreational cannabis market in Colorado; 3.Recreational marijuana legalization in Washington State: benefits and harms; 4.A century of cannabis control in Canada: a brief overview of history, context and policy frameworks from prohibition to legalization; 5.Uruguay: the first country to legalize cannabis; PART II: GENERAL MODELS OF REFORM; 6.Cannabis decriminalization policies across the globe; 7."More than just counting the plants": different home cannabis cultivation policies, cannabis supply contexts and approaches to their evaluation; 8. City-level policies of regulating recreational cannabis in Europe: from pilot projects to "local customization"?; PART III: LESSONS FROM ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND LEGAL HIGHS 9.Lessons learned from the alcohol regulation perspective; 10.Lessons from tobacco regulation for cannabis product regulation; 11.How not to legalize cannabis: lessons from New Zealand’s experiment with regulating "legal highs"; PART IV: EARLIER INNOVATIONS IN CANNABIS LAW REFORM; 12.Coffeeshops in the Netherlands: regulating the front door and the back door; 13. Cannabis social clubs in Spain: recent legal developments; 14.Swiss cannabis policies; 15. The Australian experience and opportunities for cannabis law reform; 16.Cannabis policy reform: Jamaica’s experience; PART V : NEW CANNABIS LEGALIZATION PROPOSALS; 17.The risks of cannabis industry funding of community and drug treatment services: Insights from gambling; 18.Insights for the design of Cannabis Social Club regulation; Conclusion