Trends in Patterns of Consumption and Limited Effects of Penal Policies: The Case of Germany
Reuband, Karl-Heinz
Trends in Patterns of Consumption and Limited Effects of Penal Policies: The Case of Germany - 2008.
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Drug use evolved in Germany as a mass phenomenon in the mid sixties. In most of the cases it involved cannabis. Since then it has been characterized by ups and downs with recent signs of a decrease. Hard drug use and drug mortality have followed the general trend with some delay. Variations in drug policy within Germany vis-a-vis cannabis have not shown neither to affect prevalence levels nor attitudes towards cannabis: whether a more repressive or a more liberal approach characterizes the legal system does not matter, as it has also be shown in cross national comparisons.
Trends in Patterns of Consumption and Limited Effects of Penal Policies: The Case of Germany - 2008.
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Drug use evolved in Germany as a mass phenomenon in the mid sixties. In most of the cases it involved cannabis. Since then it has been characterized by ups and downs with recent signs of a decrease. Hard drug use and drug mortality have followed the general trend with some delay. Variations in drug policy within Germany vis-a-vis cannabis have not shown neither to affect prevalence levels nor attitudes towards cannabis: whether a more repressive or a more liberal approach characterizes the legal system does not matter, as it has also be shown in cross national comparisons.
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