ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines drugs in a wide variety of contexts and from a variety of conceptual perspectives. It demonstrates, drugs are far more than simply a set of biochemical stimulants. Rather, they are deeply embedded in varying historical contexts, cultural norms and legal practices. Drugs are also profoundly spatial: the production, transportation, exchange and consumption of drugs of various sorts speak volumes about local differences in social values, beliefs and practices concerning drugs, let alone how the state monitors and regulates their use. The book conveys a sense of geographies constituted through flows and movements, multiplicities and rhizomes, actor-networks and assemblages and power-geometries and relational places, with an understanding of space and spatiality as highly plastic and mutable that underscores complexity, ephemerality and fluidity. Drugs are a concise manifestation of globalization in all its profound complexity and gory realty.
