Drugs, Gender, and Prohibition: A Comment on a Focus on Gender in the Drugs Field With Particular Reference to the Works of Micheline D. Ludwick, Sheigla Murphy, and Paloma Sales; Jody Miller and Kristin Carbone-Lopez; and Molly Moloney, Geoffrey Hunt, and Karen Joe-Laidler

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THE AUTHORS

Axel Klein, PhD, is the team leader of the Cocaine Route Programme, an international set of actions to combat organized crime funded by the European Commission. He is a social anthropologist with a particular interest in the use and control of psychoactive substances. His research has included a study of the distribution and use of khat in Northeast Africa, cannabis culture in the Caribbean, and the emergence of the term “poly drug use” in scientific communities. He has been involved in a number of projects on different areas of policy with the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the European Commission, and the African Union. He is currently working on the EU-funded Cocaine Route Programme. His publications include Drugs and the World (2009; Reaktion, London), and in B. Labate (ed.) Prohibition, Religious Freedom, and Human Rights: Regulating Traditional Drug Use (Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg).