International Journal of Drug Policy call for papers: Global patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation

This special issue of the International Journal of Drug Policy aims to critically examine and advance research on differences in the characteristics, motivations, cultivation methods and organisational structures of those individuals and groups involved in cannabis cultivation, as well as the factors that may help to explain these differences (different national contexts, but also different methodologies or samples). It also aims to consider developments in policing, policy and other responses to cannabis cultivation.

The journal encourages submissions that address the following topics:

• Development of services to drug users (including OST) and the political context in which this development has taken place, including resistance from various stakeholders
• Epidemiology of drug use and related infectious diseases, including data quality control issues (particularly IBBSs)
• Drug-related mortality and overdose prevention programmes and related policies
• Drug use risk behaviours, especially in relation to injecting practices and the spread of blood-borne viruses
• Drug-related crime, trends and analysis of associated factors
• The growth and challenges of community-level and NGO responses to illicit drug use
• The evolution of drug policies and the relative influence of evidence-based thinking
• Contemporary and future challenges for harm reduction

Abstracts should be emailed to tom.decorte@ugent.be and to potterg@lsbu.ac.uk by May 31. The email subject heading should read “IJDP Special Issue”. The editors will inform authors by June 30 whether to proceed to full submission. If selected, complete manuscripts will be due October 15. All manuscripts are subject to the normal IJDP peer review process. The special issue will be published in 2014.

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