UKCIA Research Library
A selection of studies and articles on the social context of cannabis use
Marijuana
- The First Twelve Thousand Years
Ernest
L. Abel
A major work on the history of cannabis
>> Marijuana, the first twelve thousand years
The
Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge
An Inquiry into the Legal History of
American Marijuana Prohibition
>> The forbidden fruit
The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
Edward M. Brecher and the Editors of Consumer Reports Magazine
1972. Drug prohibition, an examination.
>> CU report on licit anfd illicit drugs in the UK
The substance of youth - the place of drugs in young people's lives today
Perri 6, Ben Jupp, Helen Perry and Kristen Lasky
Demos
November 1997
>>The substance of youth
Cannabis and Driving
>> Recreational Drugs and Driving Prevalence Survey
>> The influence of cannabis on driving
>> Marijuana and Actual Driving Performance
>> Cannabis and road safety
>> Drugs and Accident Risk in Fatally-Injured Drivers
>> Alcohol and Drugs Foundation of Australia: Drugs and Driving
Cannabis intoxication and fatal road crashes in France: Population based case-control study
Bernard Laumon et al
>> Paper
>> Presentation
of the results is misleading
Economics of cannabis cultivation in Europe
Paper
presented at the 2nd European Conference on Drug Trafficking and Law Enforcement.
Paris,
26 & 27 September, 2002.
>> Paper
Geopolitics
- Cannabis around the world
>> Americas
>> Africa
>> Asia
>> Europe
A
Review of Drugs Policy and Proposals for the Future
The
Association of Chief Police Officers ACPO
2002
>> ACPO report
Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2002
>> Contents and forward
Evaluating
alternative cannabis regimes
The British Journal of Psychiatry 2001
The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Volume 178, February 2001, pp 123-128
>> Evaluating
alternative cannabis regimes
Illicit Drugs and Crime
Benson, Bruce
L., and David W. Rasmussen.
Independent Policy Report: Illicit Drugs and Crime.
Oakland, CA: The Independent Institute, 1996
>> Paper
The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report
>> Contents
Licit and illicit drug use in Amsterdam 1987-2001
CEDRO
>> Paper 1 Development of drugs use in Amsterdam as measured in five population surveys between 1987 and 2001.
>> Paper 2 Report of a household survey in 1994 on the prevalence of drug use among the population of 12 years and over.
>>> Paper 3
Developments in drugs use 1987-2001
New
Scientist Marijuana Special Report
New Scientist, Feb 21, 1998
>> New Scientist report
The Single
Convention And Drug Policy Reform
A
paper presented at the "Regulating Cannabis" Conference
London, September
5th 1998
>> paper
The Wootton Report 1968 - Cannabis policy
Report
by the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence
>> Report
The effects of adolescent cannabis use on educational attainment: a review
MICHAEL LYNSKEY & WAYNE HALL National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
>> Paper
Marijuana Prohibition Has Not Curtailed Marijuana Use by Adolescents
Maijuana Policy Project
>> Paper
Drugs of abuse and the elicitation of human aggressive behavior
Peter N.S. Hoaken et al
>> Paper
The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition
Marijuana Policy Project 2005
>> Paper
Cannabis and harm reduction
WENDY SWIFT et al
>> Paper
Compounds
found in Cannabis Sativa
>>
The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens (Cannabis)
Cannabis Potency In Europe
EMCDDA
>> Paper
Cannabis, social control and exclusion: the importance of social ties
Amnon
J. Suissa
Department
of Social Work, Université of Quebec
>> Paper
Cannabis: The
Scientific And Medical Evidence
The House of Lords, Science and Technology Committee, 4 Nov 1998
>> Report
>> Government response
Cannabis - Aan update 1999-2002
David Nutt et al
>> Paper
Cannabis use - A stepping stone to other drugs?
The case of Amsterdam
CEDOR
>> Paper
Cannabis use to enhance sportive and non-sportive performances among French sport students
Fabrice Olivier Lorente et al
>> Paper
Cannabis Vaporizer Combines Efficient Delivery of THC with Effective Suppression of Pyrolytic Compounds
Dale Gieringer etal
>> Paper
Marijuana use and car crash injury
Stephanie Blows et al
>> Paper
Estimated cannabis use in the Netherlands substantially lower
Centre
for Drug Research, University of Amsterdam (CEDRO), Tue 14th April 1998 press release
>> Press release
Reducing The Risk of Drug Involvement Among Early Adolescents An Evaluation of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) 1993
>> Paper
The domestic cultivation of cannabis
South Bank University’s Criminal Policy Research Unit and the National Addiction Centre at King’s College, London,
>> Paper
Dose related risk of motor vehicle crashes after cannabis use
J.G. Ramaekers
>> Paper
Cannabis
effects and dependency concerns in long-term frequent users: A missing piece of
the public health puzzle
Andrew
D. Hathaway et al
>> Paper
Can health campaigns make people ill? The iatrogenic potential of population-based cannabis prevention
Harry R Sumnall and Mark A Bellis
>> Paper
Relationship between student illicit drugs use and school drug testing policies
Royoko Yamaguchi et al
>> Paper
Substance use by young offenders: the impact of the normalisation of drug use in the early years of the 21st century
UK Home Office
>> Paper
Improving the quality of the cannabis debate: defining the different domains
John Strang etal
>> Paper
The Irrelevance of Drug Policy Patterns and careers of experienced cannabis use in the populations of Amsterdam, San Francisco and Bremen
Peter D.A. Cohen, Ph.D. and Hendrien L. Kaal, Ph.D. CEDRO / UvA 2001
>> Paper
Legalisation:
The First Hundred Years
What happened when drugs were legal and why they were prohibited
>> Article
The
Dutch example shows that liberal drug laws can be beneficial
Reinarman,
Craig (2000)
>> Article
The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and in San Francisco
Craig Reinarman, PhD et al
>> Paper
Cannabis amotivational syndrome and personality trait absorption: A review and reconceptualization
Peter L. Nelson, Ph.D.
Centre for Humanities and Human Sciences
Southern Cross University
>> Paper
Physological and psychological effects of cannabis
Review of the research findings
Prepared for the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs
>> Paper
Marijuana Water Pipe and Vaporizer Study
Dale Gieringer, Ph.D.
>> Paper
How Drug Prohibition Finances and Otherwise Enables Terrorism
Eugene Oscapella, Barrister and Solicitor, Ottawa, Canada
>> Paper
Psychological and social sequelae of cannabis and other illicit drug use by young people: a systematic review of longitudinal, general population studies
John Macleod et al
>> Paper
Reassessing the marijuana gateway effect
Andrew R. Morral et al
>> Paper
Psychoactive substance use and the risk of motor vehicle accidents
K.L.L. Movig et al
>> Paper
The Secret of Worldwide Drug Prohibition
The Varieties and Uses of Drug Prohibition
HARRY G. LEVINE
>> Paper
Taxing the UK drugs market
Matthew J Atha BSC MSC LLB
Independent drug monitoring unit
>> Paper
The Weed of Controversy
Arthur C. Gibson
>> Paper
The
History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States
A Speech to the California Judges Association 1995 annual conference
Charles Whitebread, Professor of Law, USC Law School
>> Article
‘You can’t go without a fag . . . you need it for your hash’ — a qualitative exploration of smoking, cannabis and young people
Amanda Amos et al
>> Paper
Young people, cannabis and family life
RUHBC Research findings
>> Article
Young people's access to tobacco, alcohol, and other drugs
BMJ
>> Article
Exposing marijuana myths: A review of the scientific evidence
Lynn Zimmer, Associate Professor of Sociology Queens College and John P.
Morgan, Professor of Pharmacology, City University Medical School
>> Paper