Critically explore the boundaries between drug users and drug dealers in the UK cannabis market. This essay will look at the boundaries and relationships between cannabis users and the cannabis dealers within the UK. Firstly examining the legislation and the current policies that have been implemented to try and deal with the medical, physiological problems with cannabis. Secondly linking the legalisation and policies upon cannabis that have already been implemented throughout the United…
subculture that Britain has ever seen” (McDermott et al, 2000.) It can be theorised that the main moral panics regarding the culture of rave music centred around the controversial drug misuse of those involved in the culture and in particular the use of MDMA (or Ecstasy) at underground rave events. It can be suggested that the moral panic surrounding the popularity of the drug Ecstasy became amplified through the media’s response to the tragic death of a young girl called Leah Betts in 1995 due…