This page lists publications by the GCCRC, including all publications that use the International Cannabis Cultivation Questionnaire. Open-access full-text papers, if available, can be viewed by clicking on the title link.
Special issue of International Journal of Drug Policy
Potter, G. R., & Decorte, T., (Eds.). (2015). Special Issue: Domestic cannabis cultivation. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(3).
Books
Decorte, T., Potter, G., & Bouchard, M. (Eds.). (2011). World Wide Weed. Global trends in cannabis cultivation and its control. Farnham, UK: Ashgate.
Articles
Athey, N., Bouchard, M., Decorte, T., Frank, V., Hakkarainen, P. (2013). Cannabis Cultivation and Detection: A Comparative Study of Belgium, Finland, and Denmark. Drugs: Education, Prevention, Policy, 20, 203-215. https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2012.760532
Barratt, M. J., Bouchard, M., Decorte, T., Asmussen Frank, V., Hakkarainen, P., Lenton, S., Malm, A., Nguyen, H., & Potter, G. R. (2012). Understanding global patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 12(4), 213-221. https://doi.org/10.1108/17459261211286627
Barratt, M. J., & Lenton, S. (2015). Representativeness of online purposive sampling with Australian cannabis cultivators. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(3), 323-326. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.10.007
Barratt, M. J., Potter, G. R., Wouters, M., Wilkins, C., Werse, B., Perälä, J., Pedersen, M. M., Nguyen, H., Malm, A., Lenton, S., Korf, D., Klein, A., Heyde, J., Hakkarainen, P., Frank, V. A., Decorte, T., Bouchard, M., & Blok, T. (2015). Lessons from conducting trans-national Internet-mediated participatory research with hidden populations of cannabis cultivators. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(3), 238–249. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.12.004
Decorte, T. (2010). Small scale domestic cannabis cultivation: An anonymous Web survey among 659 cannabis cultivators in Belgium. Contemporary Drug Problems, 37, 341-370. https://doi.org/10.1177/009145091003700208
Decorte, T., Malm, A., Sznitman, S., Hakkarainen, P., Barratt, M.J., Potter, G.R., Werse, B., Kamphausen, G., Lenton, S., & Asmussen Frank, V. (2019). The challenges and benefits of analyzing feedback comments in surveys: Lessons from a cross-national online survey of small-scale cannabis growers. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059799119825606
Hakkarainen, P., Decorte, T., Sznitman, S., Karjalainen, K., Barratt, M., Frank, V., Lenton, S., Potter, G., Werse, B. and Wilkinson, C. (2019). Examining the blurred boundaries between medical and recreational cannabis – Results from an international study of small-scale cannabis cultivation. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 26(3), 250-258. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2017.1411888
Hakkarainen, P., Frank, V. A., Barratt, M. J., Dahl, H. V., Decorte, T., Karjalainen, K., Lenton, S., Potter, G., & Werse, B. (2015). Growing medicine: Small-scale cannabis cultivation for medical purposes in six different countries. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(3), 250–256. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.07.005
Hakkarainen, P., Frank, V. A., Perälä, J., & Dahl, H. V. (2011). Small-scale cannabis growers in Denmark and Finland. European Addiction Research, 17, 119-128. https://doi.org/10.1159/000322920
Hakkarainen, P., Perälä, J. , & Metso, L. (2011). Kukkaa pukkaa – Kannabiksen kotikasvatus Suomessa [Bud, bud, bud – Home growing of cannabis in Finland]. Yhteiskuntapolitiikka 76(2), 157-168.
Lenton, S., Frank, V. A., Barratt, M. J., Dahl, H. V., & Potter, G. R. (2015). Attitudes of cannabis growers to regulation of cannabis cultivation under a non-prohibition cannabis model. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(3), 257–266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.08.002
Lenton, S., Frank, V. A., Barratt, M. J., Potter, G. R., & Decorte, T. (2018). Growing practices and the use of potentially harmful chemical additives among a sample of small scale cannabis growers in three countries. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 192, 250-256. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.07.040
Malm, A., Bouchard, M., Decorte, T., Vlaemynck, M., & Wouters, M. (2017). More structural holes, more risks? Network structure and risk perceptions among marijuana growers. Social Networks, 51, 127-134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2017.01.006
Nguyen, H., Malm, A., & Bouchard, M. (2015). Production, perception, and punishment: Restrictive deterrence in the context of cannabis cultivation. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(3), 267-276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.08.012
Ouellet, M., Bouchard, M., & Malm, A. (2016). Social opportunity structures and the escalation of drug market offending. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 53(6), 743-764. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427816647163
Potter, G. R., Barratt, M. J., Malm, A., Bouchard, M., Blok, T., Christensen, A.-S., Decorte, T., Frank, V. A., Hakkarainen, P., Klein, A., Lenton, S., Perälä, J., Werse, B., & Wouters, M. (2015). Global patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation: Sample characteristics and patterns of growing across eleven countries. International Journal of Drug Policy, 26(3), 226–237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.12.007
Sevigny, E. L., Potter, G., Wilkins, C., Barratt, M. J., Søgaard, T. F., Hakkarainen, P., Grigg, J., & Roustide, M. J. (2023). Conflict and social control among cannabis growers. International Journal of Drug Policy, Article 104292.
Søgaard, T. F., Korshøj, N. T., & Frank, V. A. (2022). Rekruttering af deltagere til online spørgeskemaundersøgelser om kriminelle aktiviteter: Cannabisdyrkning som case [Recruiting participants for online survey studies of crime: the case of cannabis cultivation]. Nordisk Tidsskrift for Kriminalvidenskab, 3, 368-385.
Sznitman, S., Barratt, M.J., Decorte, T., Hakkarainen, P., Lenton, S., Potter, G.R., Werse, B., Kamphausen, G., & Wilkins, C. (2019). Do medical cannabis growers attempt to produce more potent cannabis products than recreational growers? Drugs and Alcohol Today, 19(4), 251-256. http://doi.org/10.1108/DAT-06-2019-0021
Sznitman, S. R., Potter, G. R., Grigg, J., Granville, A., Hakkarainen, P., Decorte, T., Lenton, S., Fortin, D., Bear, D., Kirtadze, I., Jauffret-Roustide, M., Barratt, M. J., & Sevigny, E. L. (2023). Are cannabis use problems comparable across individuals using for recreational and medical purposes? An international cross-sectional study of individuals who use self-grown cannabis. International Journal of Drug Policy, Article 104263.
Werse, B. (2016). Legal issues for German-speaking cannabis growers. Results from an online survey. International Journal of Drug Policy, 28, 113–119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.10.007
Werse, B. (2015). Hanfanbau in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Ergebnisse aus dem deutschsprachigen Global Cannabis Cultivation Survey. Kriminologisches Journal, 47(2), 146-161.
Werse, B. (2017). Erfahrungen mit dem illegalen Cannabisanbau in Kontext strafrechtlicher Verfolgung. Ergebnisse aus den Erhebungen des “Global Cannabis Cultivation Research Consortium”. Rausch – Wiener Zeitschrift für Suchtherapie, 6(4): 255-263.
Wilkins, C., Sznitman, S., Decorte, T., Hakkarainen, P. & Lenton, S. (2018). Characteristics of cannabis cultivation in New Zealand and Israel. Drugs and Alcohol Today, 18 (2), 90-98. http://doi.org/10.1108/DAT-03-2018-0010
Book chapters
Frank, V. A., Christensen, A-S., Villumsen, S., & Dahl, H. V. (2012). Dyrkning af cannabis i Danmark. [Cannabis cultivation in Denmark]. In H. V. Dahl & V. A. Frank (Eds.), Cannabis – Forbrug, interventioner og marked i Danmark (pp. 147-171). Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
Hakkarainen, P., & Perälä, J. (2011). With a little help from my friends – Justifications of small-scale cannabis growers. In T. Decorte, G. Potter & M. Bouchard (Eds.), World wide weed: the globalisation and localisation of cannabis cultivation (pp. 75-89). Farnham: Ashgate.
Hakkarainen P., & Perälä J. (2016). Green, green grass of home – Small-scale cannabis cultivation and social supply in Finland. In B. Werse & C. Bernard (Eds.) Friendly business. International views on social supply, self-supply and small-scale drug dealing (pp. 197-221). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Potter, G. R., Barratt, M. J., Malm, A., Bouchard, M., Blok, T., Christensen, A.-S., Decorte, T., Frank, V. A., Hakkarainen, P., Klein, A., Lenton, S., Perälä, J., Werse, B., & Wouters, M. (2016). Global patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation: Sample characteristics and patterns of growing across eleven countries. In B. Werse & C. Bernard (Eds.) Friendly business. International views on social supply, self-supply and small-scale drug dealing (pp. 163-196). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.