CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Bouhout, Nouhaila |
|---|---|
| Title | The Failure of Global Drug Control Policy: Morocco's Cannabis Resin Market as a Case Study |
| Summary | For over a century, the international drug control regime has failed to effectively reduce the harms associated with drugs. This is despite prohibition and eradication-based methods of addressing illegal crop cultivation. This thesis analyses these failures by focusing on a specific case study: Morocco’s cannabis resin market. Regardless of drug policies and international treaty obligations to eradicate cannabis cultivation and production, the Rif—Morocco’s most disadvantaged region—remains the largest producer and supplier of cannabis resin, globally. In order to understand these controversial outcomes, this thesis conducts a drug control policy impact assessment. It identifies and examines unintended drug policy impacts on the Rif’s economic, environmental, and social development. This thesis perceives and measures drug policy from a broader social context as the key drivers of drug markets stem from the demand-side of the drug trade, an approach global drug policy metrics fail to consider as they are focused on law and order. Therefore, in order for drug policy to effectively confront the world drug problem, it should recognize that the production of drugs occurs primarily within the fragile realities of rural, patriarchal, and impoverished regions. |
| Supervisor | Buxton, Julia |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/bouhout_nouhaila.pdf |
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