From Ganja to crack: Caribbean participation in the underground economy in Brooklyn, 1976-1986. Part 1. Establishment of the marijuana economy
Int J Addict
; 26(6): 615-28, June 1991.
Artigo
em Inglês
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| ID: med-15934
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JM3.1
Localização: JM3.1; Reprint Collection
ABSTRACT
The involvement of Caribbean youth in drug distribution (marijuana from the mid-1960s to 1981; cocaine hydrochloride powder and crack from 1981 to 1987, the time of writing) throughout the Circum-Caribbean area and in North America is described. Social, economic, and cultural outcomes of these engagements are highlighted, and the relationship between the underground economy of drugs and the corporate, capitalist economy is explored. Responding to high rates of unemployment and to other problems of migrant adaptation, young Caribbean African males established a mutlimillion dollar marijuana (ganja) trading network which linked cultivators on the islands with exporters/importers and street-level distributors in North American cities. By 1976, its participants had become Rastafarians, or followers of an ideology of self-reliance and indigenous development. Following its precepts, they reinvested marijuana revenues to revive cottage industry and agriculture. In Caribbean or minority neighbourhoods, therefore, marijuana was a "positive vibration" and its distribution were lionized.(AU)
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Assunto principal:
Cannabis
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Etnicidade
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Drogas Ilícitas
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Crime
/
Economia
Tipo de estudo:
Avaliação econômica em saúde
Aspecto:
Determinantes sociais da saúde
Limite:
Humanos
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Masculino
País/Região como assunto:
América do Norte
/
Caribe
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Int J Addict
Ano de publicação:
1991
Tipo de documento:
Artigo