Internationally, policymakers are considering alternative, non-criminal responses to the
possession of drugs for personal use, or 'simple possession'. We show that …

Introduction Public spaces where alcohol and other drugs are openly used and marginal
citizens gather, exist in many Nordic cities. The biggest open drug scenes in the Nordic …

International drug policy is undergoing change, and certain types of lay experts, those who
have experienced problems with drug use, are getting a more important role. By drawing on …

Many legislations and cultures undergo liberalization regarding cannabis use, and users in
Poland make constant references to, and are part of, a burgeoning global cannabis culture …

Aim: This article traces recent developments in Danish cannabis policy, by exploring how
“cannabis use” is problematised and governed within different co-existing policy areas …

In a Nordic perspective, Danish drug policy has traditionally been considered to be fairly
liberal (Bruun & Rosenqvist 1980; Moeller 2019). This has been due, among other things, to …

While Canada, Uruguay and several US states have legalised cannabis in recent years, and
many European countries have implemented or are considering decriminalisation as an …

This chapter describes the first police-led diversion project in Denmark, which aimed to
direct young people caught by the police in possession of illicit drugs towards treatment …

The above vignette and the conversation included occurred on a sunny summer day in
2015. A larger group of Danish police detectives and I, the ethnographer, were enjoying an …

Contemporary drug policy is still largely based on prohibition in most parts of the world, and
the majority of drug policy expenditure worldwide goes towards law enforcement, even …