Book review: Regulating cannabis: A detailed scenario for a nonprofit cannabis market

Abstract

New regulation models of cannabis are emerging worldwide as alternatives to prohibiting cannabis supply, raising numerous questions concerning cannabis policy reforms. Decorte, who has published several articles on substance use and cannabis markets, criticises repressive cannabis policies, arguing that the prohibitive model has failed the major harm reduction and public health goals set for these policies during the past decades. Decorte argues that in the long term, cannabis policy has to lead to a decrease of the general prevalence of cannabis use and postponement of the first-time use of cannabis. [Extracted from the article]