Caribbean drugs : from criminalization to harm reduction
In recent years Caribbean countries have responded to US pressure by adopting a coordinated policy of criminalizing ganja & crack cocaine usage. This volume assesses the impact of the policy on a population for whom drug usage has been socially acceptable & provides a warning for policy makers elsewhere
Print Book, English, ©2004
Zed Books in Association with Drugscope ; Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave ; Ian Randle, London, New York, New York, ©2004
xvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9781842774984, 9781842774991, 9789766371944, 1842774980, 1842774999, 9766371946
53975544
The search for a new drug policy framework : from the Barbados plan of action to the Ganja Commission / Axel Klein
Criminalizing cultural practice : the case of ganja in Jamaica / Barry Chevannes
Drug courts in Jamaica : means to an end or end in itself? / Anthony Harriott and Marlyn Jones
Drugs and the prison system : impact of legislative changes on the prison crises in the commonwealth Caribbean region / Wendy Singh
Rethinking privatisation, the state and illegal drugs in the commonwealth Caribbean / Philip Nanton
Drug abuse treatment and rehabilitation in Jamaica and the Caribbean / Howard Gough
What's the hook? Diary of a drop-in centre or rehabilitation before abstinence / Marcus Day
Cayman drug council : practising harm reduction in a zero-tolerance society / Catherine Chestnut
Ethical dilemmas in drug research : pitfalls of gathering sensitive information in the Caribbean context / Jennifer Hillebrand
Illicit drug markets in the Caribbean : analysis of information on drug flows through the region / Michael Platzer with Flavio Mirella and Carlos Resa Nestares
The Ganja industry and alternative development in St Vincent and the Grenadines / Axel Klein