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Drug Policy and the Development Fallacy

Drug Policy and the Development Fallacy

Today the causes of illicit drug cultivation are, at least on paper, almost universally recognised to have socio-economic causes: the recourse to illegal activity is considered to be a response to poverty, marginalisation and a lack of economic opportunities. (GDPO – Global Drug Policy Observatory / Swansea University, UK, ISSN 2054-1910, November 2020)

https://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/Policy-Brief-15.pdf