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Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice'.
List of contents
Introduction: Towards Drug Policy JusticeDamon Barrett and Rick LinesPart I: The evolving drug policy spaceChapter 1: Towards Transformative Drug Policy ReformLaura Garius, Imani Mason Jordan, Niamh EastwoodChapter 2: Drug Policy Reform and Human Rights Post-COVID-19Kasia Malinowksa and Diederik LohmanChapter 3: Debunking the Three Myths About Reforming Asian Drug PoliciesMichelle Miao and Gloria LaiPart II: Tracking progressChapter 4: Lessons Learned from Legal Regulation of CannabisZara Snapp, Jorge Herrera Valderrábano and Luis Daniel Santiago VidargasChapter 5: The Regulation of Legal Drug Markets: Key Lessons from Alcohol Control Policy in AfricaEdiomo-Ubong E. Nelson and Isidore S. ObotChapter 6: Legal Epidemiology in Post-Prohibition ScenariosScott Burris, Corey S. Davis and Elizabeth PlattPart III: Harm reduction in the changing landscapeChapter 7: Harm Reduction Post-ProhibitionNaomi Burke-Shyne and Ajeng LarasatiChapter 8: Can Darknet Drug Markets Be Harm Reducing? Building Decriminalised Spaces in Central and Eastern Europe and Central AsiaEliza Kurcevi¿Chapter 9: Prisoner to Patient: The Pathologisation of People Who Use DrugsShaun Shelly and Sonja Pasche Part IV: Emerging rights issues at the supply side Chapter 10: Peasants' Rights after the War on Drugs: The Case for Transformative Cannabis RegulationsAlejandro Rodríguez, Isabel Pereira and Luis Felipe CruzChapter 11: Are Coca Crops Causing Deforestation in Colombia? Would a Future Regulated Market Impact the Environment?María Alejandra VélezPart V: Reckoning with the pastChapter 12: Consensus Breakdown and Recalcitrancy in the Drug Control System - Towards Disintegration or Re-Integration?John CollinsChapter 13: The Last Drug Warrior in the West: UK Drug policy and shifting material interests from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first CenturyKojo Koram
About the author
Damon Barrett is a senior lecturer in human rights at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He is Co-Director of the International Centre on Human Rights and Drug Policy, based at the Human Rights Centre, University of Essex. His work has focused on what it means to adopt a human rights-based approach to drugs, with a particular focus on the rights of the child.
Rick Lines is Professor of Criminology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at Swansea University in Wales, where he is Co-Director of Global Drug Policy Observatory. He has been called 'a key figure in the emerging field of human rights and drug policy' and is Chair of the International Centre of Human Rights and Drug Policy at the University of Essex and author of
Drug Control and Human Rights in International Law. In 2022, he joined Public Health Wales where he leads national policy, programming and research on drug use and harm reduction.
