A cannabis reader : global issues and local experiences. Perspectives on cannabis controversies, treatment and regulation in Europe EMCDDA MONOGRAPHS, 8 Volume 1 Editors : Sharon Rödner Sznitman, Börje Olsson, Robin Room European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, Lisbon, 2008 — 392 pp. Contents Introduction Foreword : Wolfgang Götz Overview of Volume 1 : Sharon Rödner Sznitman and Börje Olsson Part I : Cannabis in the past Chapter 1 : Cannabis as medicine in Europe in the 19th century : Manfred Fankhauser Chapter 2 : The re-emergence of the therapeutic use of cannabis products : recent developments and future prospects : John Witton Chapter 3 : The pharmacology of cannabis: [...]
Lire la suiteHashish revival in Morocco Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy, Kenza Afsahi International Journal of Drug Policy, 2014, Vol. 25, Issue 3, 416-423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.01.001 © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Ab s t r a c t Background : In less than a decade, Morocco reportedly saw cannabis cultivation decrease by 65%, and hashish production is widely believed to have followed the same trend. Yet large anomalies exist between the alleged fall of hashish production in Morocco and international seizure data. While no explanation for such a discrepancy existed, the main hypothesis was that cannabis cultivation and hashish production had not declined to the extent suggested by the available [...]
Lire la suite“Should I Buy or Should I Grow?” How drug policy institutions and drug market transaction costs shape the decision to self-supply with cannabis in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic Vendula Belackovaa, Nicole Maalsté, Tomas Zabranskya, Jean Paul Grund International Journal of Drug Policy, 2015, 26, 293-310 © 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. A b s t r a c t Background : This paper uses the framework of institutional economics to assess the impact of formal and informal institutions that influence the transaction costs on the cannabis market, and users’ decisions to self-supply in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, two countries with [...]
Lire la suiteDemystifying Cannabis Daniele Piomelli, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Volume 4, Number 1, 2019 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/can.2019.29012.edi Every new book by Malcolm Gladwell goes, by default, straight to the top of my reading list. In the unlikely event that you are not familiar with the work of this Canadian author, make time to read The Tipping Point (Little, Brown and Co., 2000) or Outliers (Little, Brown and Co., 2008), and you will see why. Not only Gladwell is remarkably well informed and clear, as one would expect from an accomplished writer and public speaker, but he also has an unusual knack for uncovering [...]
Lire la suiteModel of Passion Applied to Recreational Marijuana Consumption Alan K Davis, Addiction Research & Theory, 2017, 25, 3, 188-194 Published online 2016 Dec 5. doi: 10.1080/16066359.2016.1242722 Abstract : This study was designed to evaluate the application of the dualistic model of passion (Vallerand, 2015; Vallerand et al., 2003) to recreational marijuana consumption. Using a web-based recruitment and data collection procedure, an online sample of 524 frequent marijuana consumers were administered a modified version of the Passion Scale (Marijuana-Harmonious and Obsessive Passion Scale; M-HOPS) and other questionnaires. Results from a canonical correlation analysis indicated that obsessive passion scores were significantly positively associated with past 30-day consumption, [...]
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