Smoking marijuana in public: The spatial and policy shift in New York City arrests, 1992-2003

Harm Reduction Journal

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Golub, Andrew ^a,b   Johnson, Bruce D ^b   Dunlap, Eloise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANNABIS;

ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISPANIC; HOUSING; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MINORITY GROUP; NEGRO; POLICE; POLICY; POVERTY; PRISON; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; PUNISHMENT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RACISM; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749427400     PISSN: 14777517     EISSN: 14777517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7517-3-22     Document Type: Article

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