ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Cannabis cultivation in the developing world. It analyses eradication efforts directed against cannabis cultivation. The chapter provides an important update of the situation of cannabis cultivation in the United States (US). It discusses the situation in the Netherlands, well-known for tolerating the buying of cannabis through the coffee shop system. The term cannabis is used to cover a range of products derived from the cannabis plant and that go by many different names. A key characteristic that distinguishes cannabis from other drugs is that it is derived directly from the plant, with minimal processing required to produce a consumable and effective drug product. Most experts agree that cannabis probably evolved in central Asia, but it now grows wild on every continent except Antarctica and is cultivated in most countries around the world.
