The globalization of cannabis cultivation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-20

  Potter, Gary R ^a   Bouchard, Martin ^b   Decorte, Tom ^c  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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