Weed, Need and Greed: A Study of Domestic Cannabis Cultivation - Softcover

The author explores who is involved in cannabis growing. At a basic level features - demographic and 'ideological' - common to most cannabis growers (although varying by national and local social cultural and legal contexts) are considered. At a deeper level a typology of cannabis growers is offered based predominantly on motivation and ideology, and accommodating international variations. Although a large number of cannabis growers seek no financial reward whatsoever for their involvement in what is essentially an act of drug trafficking, others are financially motivated, though both are equally motivated by non-financial 'drivers'.

Dr Potter is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University. He has spent 10 years researching cannabis cultivation and drug markets in the UK and beyond