Drugs and Alcohol Today: Volume 12 Issue 4

Drug policy as freedom from rationality. The prosecution of the Rototom music festival in Italy

Peter Cohen

The author aims to use the example of the Rototom Sunsplash Festival (a large European annual reggae festival held in Italy) to discuss his personal views on drug policy at such…

Understanding global patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation

Monica J. Barratt, Martin Bouchard, Tom Decorte, Vibeke Asmussen Frank, Pekka Hakkarainen, Simon Lenton, Aili Malm, Holly Nguyen, Gary R. Potter

Unlike other plant‐based drugs, cannabis is increasingly grown within the country of consumption, requires minimal processing before consumption, and can be easily grown almost…

How to handle legal highs? Findings from a German online survey and considerations on drug policy issues

Bernd Werse, Cornelia Morgenstern

This article aims to discuss the results on prevalence, patterns of use and motivations for the use of legal high products/new psychoactive substances (NPS) and possible…

The problem with “skunk”

Gary R. Potter, Caroline Chatwin

This article aims to discuss the use of the word “skunk” in contemporary discourse as short‐hand for premium quality, indoor‐grown cannabis. Skunk, as used in this way, is a…

Miaow miaow: a review of the new psychoactive drug mephedrone

Rebekah Brennan, Marie Claire Van Hout

Mephedrone is a synthetic stimulant drug causing entactogenic and hallucinogenic effects. A systematic review of all existing empirical research and literature from 2009‐2012 on…

Drug Effects: Khat in Biocultural and Socioeconomic Perspective

Axel Klein

Drug Policy reform refuseniks, and the discrepancy between the arguments for prohibition, the evidence base and the changing need for service provision

Axel Klein

Legal Eye

Drugs

Other media – web sites and videos

In this issue

Axel Klein

Alcohol

Tobacco

Nordic Alcohol and Drug Researchers’ Assembly

Nina Karlsson