Chapter
PART 1
Background and Context
1 The Search for a New Drug Policy Framework: From the Barbados Plan of Action to the Ganja Commission
The origins of drug control and the symbolic association of drug use and disorder
Revisiting the ganja complex
From cocaine powder to crack
Distinctions between crack and ganja
Taking stock – drug control in the Caribbean in 2003
What constitutes a drug offence and how should drug offenders be dealt with?
Criminalization of petty drug users and long-term security
The punitive model: instrument of drug control or manufacture of criminality?
Drugs as a development issue
Who are the problem drug users and how are they to be reached and treated?
Where next in Caribbean drug control?
References and Select Bibliography
2 Criminalizing Cultural Practice: The Case of Ganja in Jamaica
References and Select Bibliography
3 Drug Courts in Jamaica: Means to an End or End in Itself?
History and main features of drug courts in the United States
Evaluation of the effectiveness of drug courts
Overcoming the limitations
Applicability to non-US jurisdiction
Supervised treatment and periodic testing
References and Select Bibliography
4 Drugs and the Prison System: Impact of Legislative Changes on the Prison Crises in the Commonwealth Caribbean Region
Effects on the criminal justice system
Increasing rates of arrests
Increasing rates of imprisonment
Profile of the prison population
A more appropriate approach
References and Select Bibliography
5 Rethinking Privatization, the State and Illegal Drugs in the Commonwealth Caribbean
Historical perspectives on privatization and regulation in the Caribbean
Contemporary perspectives on privatization and regulation
Implications of the alternative framework
References and select bibliography
PART 3
Interventions on the Ground
6 Drug Abuse Treatment and Rehabilitation in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Some say, ‘nothing is what it seems to be’
The birth and development of T & R in Jamaica
T & R services: the obstacles
Let’s formalize and standardize, not rationalize
The power of external influences
7 What’s the Hook? Diary of a Drop-In Centre or Rehabilitation before Abstinence
The first challenge: location, location, location
8 Cayman Drug Council: Practising Harm Reduction in a Zero-Tolerance Society
Genesis of a national drug council
Reducing harm vs harm reduction
9 Ethical Dilemmas in Drug Research: Pitfalls of Gathering Sensitive Information in the Caribbean Context
Applied ethics in the Caribbean
Ethical dilemmas and challenges
References and select bibliography
PART 4 Responses to Opportunity:
Economics of Drugs
10 Illicit Drug Markets in the Caribbean: Analysis of Information on Drug Flows Through the Region
Illicit drugs and the foreign sector
Product and national markets
11 The Ganja Industry and Alternative Development in St Vincent and the Grenadines
National drug control policies
Before and after the harvest
Social implications of ganja farming
References and select bibliography
Caribbean Drugs
：From Criminalization to Harm Reduction
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