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Coming out of the closet : Risk management strategies of illegal cannabis growers. / Potter, Gary; Klein, Axel.
Risk and Substance Use: Framing Dangerous People and Dangerous Places. ed. / Susanne MacGregor; Betsy Thom. London : Routledge, 2020. p. 201-221 (Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness).Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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AU - Potter, Gary
AU - Klein, Axel
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge/CRC Press in Risk and Substance Use on 21/02/2020, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Risk-and-Substance-Use-Framing-Dangerous-People-and-Dangerous-Places/MacGregor-Thom/p/book/9781138491243
PY - 2020/2/21
Y1 - 2020/2/21
N2 - This chapter explores the ways in which growers manage the risk of detectionagainst the background discourse of cannabis growing as a harmful activity.Growers take practical steps to reduce the chance of being discovered and managesocial relationships to reduce the likelihood that their activities are reported bypeople who do know about them. Many also engage in forms of activism aimedat changing the way their activities are perceived by society, promoting homegrowncannabis as undermining the ‘real criminals’ who profit from prohibitionand reducing the harms associated with the illegal cannabis market.
AB - This chapter explores the ways in which growers manage the risk of detectionagainst the background discourse of cannabis growing as a harmful activity.Growers take practical steps to reduce the chance of being discovered and managesocial relationships to reduce the likelihood that their activities are reported bypeople who do know about them. Many also engage in forms of activism aimedat changing the way their activities are perceived by society, promoting homegrowncannabis as undermining the ‘real criminals’ who profit from prohibitionand reducing the harms associated with the illegal cannabis market.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138491243
T3 - Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
SP - 201
EP - 221
BT - Risk and Substance Use
A2 - MacGregor, Susanne
A2 - Thom, Betsy
PB - Routledge
CY - London
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