Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State

This book examines different aspects to drugs and drug use as variously constituted through state regulation and the law. It explains how and to what effect their legal status is contingent on place, thus open to contestation and change, linking people and policy from local to global contexts. This book was originally published as a special issu

Introduction Stewart Williams & Barney Warf The agricultural politics of Cannabis control in colonial and post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa Chris Duval The myth of the narco-state Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy From raki to ayran: regulating the place and practice of drinking in Turkey Emine OE. Evered & Kyle T. Evered Neoliberalism and the alcohol industry in Ireland Julien Mercille Colliding intervention in the spatial management of street-based injecting and drug related litter in public settings Stephen Parkin Space, scale and jurisdiction in health service provision for drug users: the legal geography of a supervised injecting facility Stewart Williams Political struggles on a frontier of harm reduction drug policy: geographies of constrained policy mobility Andy Longhurst & Eugene McCann Mobilizing drug policy activism: conference spaces, convergence spaces, and assemblage Cristina Temenos Conclusion Barney Warf & Stewart Williams