Keeping down the weeds: Cannabis eradication in the developed world

World Wide Weed: Global Trends in Cannabis Cultivation and its Control

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 257-271

  Potter, Gary R ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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