BZP-‘Party pills’, populism and prohibition: Exploring global debates in a New Zealand context

In New Zealand, the debates surrounding legal highs have been developing for approximately a decade. New Zealand’s historical grappling with the problem of legal highs reflects a global problem in addressing the issues related to new psychoactive substances. The focus of this article is the prohibit...

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Main Author: Hutton, Fiona (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: The Australian and New Zealand journal of criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 50, Issue: 2, Pages: 282-306
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