Grey Area
Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs or more than 500 grams. Nor can a coffeeshop advertise, cause...
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| description | Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs or more than 500 grams. Nor can a coffeeshop advertise, cause nuisance or sell over five grams to a person in a day. These rules are enforced by surprise police checks, with violation punishable by closure.
In Grey Area, Scott Jacques examines the regulations with a huge stash of data, which he collected during two years of fieldwork in Amsterdam. How do coffeeshop owners and staff obey the rules? How are the rules broken? Why so? To what effect? The stories and statistics show that order in the midst of smoke is key to Dutch drug policy, vaporising the idea that prohibition is better than regulation. Grey Area is a timely contribution in light of the blazing reform to cannabis policy worldwide. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-315382025-07-30T10:20:39Z Grey Area Jacques, Scott Amsterdam coffeeshops drugs cannabis thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology Coffeeshops are the most famous example of Dutch tolerance. But in fact, these cannabis distributors are highly regulated. Coffeeshops are permitted to break the law, but not the rules. On the premises, there cannot be minors, hard drugs or more than 500 grams. Nor can a coffeeshop advertise, cause nuisance or sell over five grams to a person in a day. These rules are enforced by surprise police checks, with violation punishable by closure. In Grey Area, Scott Jacques examines the regulations with a huge stash of data, which he collected during two years of fieldwork in Amsterdam. How do coffeeshop owners and staff obey the rules? How are the rules broken? Why so? To what effect? The stories and statistics show that order in the midst of smoke is key to Dutch drug policy, vaporising the idea that prohibition is better than regulation. Grey Area is a timely contribution in light of the blazing reform to cannabis policy worldwide. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2019-06-04 09:47:19 2020-04-01T10:20:19Z 2019 book 1005026 OCN: 1126197289 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25067 9781787355880 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31538 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25067/1/Grey-Area.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25067/1/Grey-Area.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25067/1/Grey-Area.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25067/1/Grey-Area.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/25067/1/Grey-Area.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781787355880 10.14324/111.9781787355880 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781787355880 184 London open access |
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