'Stories', 'facts' and 'myths'. perceptions of domestic cultivators on potency and quality of cannabis

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 91-108

  Decorte, Tom ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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