Transformation of the marijuana market in the Czech Republic - from free of charge outdoor cannabis to competitive market with indoor products

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Transformation of the marijuana market in the Czech Republic - from free of charge outdoor cannabis to competitive market with indoor products

Original language description

BACKGROUND: Global cannabis markets have recently been changed by domestic cannabis cultivation. The Czech Republic (CR) has a rather high prevalence of cannabis use, and cannabis cultivation and possesion have not been targeted by law enforcement. AIMS:The aim of the paper is to describe the development of domestic cannabis cultivation in CR. DESIGN: Mixed-methods study among marijuana users, retailers and growers recruited via respondent-driven sampling was conducted (66 semi-structured interviews, 69 minutes on average,; findings from a representative population survey). FINDINGS: In CR, domestic outdoor marijuana growing was the only source of the drug when part of the Soviet block (until 1989), and it was provided for free among the users (untilthe early 1990s). Comercially grown indoor marijuana, imported from western countries, appeared on the open drug market in the late 1990s. Since 2000, domestic indoor growing has spread. From around 2005, large scale indoor growing operat

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

FQ - Public health system, social medicine

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/NT14064" target="_blank" >NT14064: New drugs – market analysis, epidemiology of use and identification of preventive and harm minimisation strategies</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Adiktologie

ISSN

1213-3841

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

382-391

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