Jacques, S;
(2019)
Grey Area: Regulating Amsterdam's Coffeeshops.
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Grey Area: Regulating Amsterdam's Coffeeshops |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-78735-588-0 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787355880 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787355880 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Scott Jacques, 2019 Images © Author and copyright holders named in captions, 2019 This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Jacques, S. 2019. Grey Area: Regulating Amsterdam’s Coffeeshops. London, UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787355880 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Amsterdam, coffeeshops, drugs, cannabis |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10072631 |
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