Marijuana and Socio-economic Development in Eastern Australia, 1975-1995
Cultivating Community
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This book examines how small-scale commercial marijuana production shaped social and economic formation in marginal hinterland communities in late-twentieth-century eastern Australia. As traditional rural industries such as dairying and forestry fell into decline, new settlers arrived and revitalised these hilly, low-income regions—though not always in ways that long-established residents welcomed. With limited access to formal income, some households turned to growing and selling marijuana. Focusing on production rather than distribution, the book shows how the illegality of cannabis connected and normalised the socio-economic periphery, tying remote forest communities to urban markets and embedding informal activity within everyday life. The book reveals how illicit enterprise underpinned community viability and illuminates the broader role of informal economies in Australia’s frontier history and regional development. Based on two decades of immersive, place-based observation, this book will appeal to scholars of anthropology, history, development studies, and rural and regional research.
Roderick Simon Cliff is an economic historian with a background in chartered management accountancy. He has a PhD in archaeology and has undertaken extensive field research, specifically on the production and trade of stone tools in pre-contact eastern Australia. Rod now lives in northern New South Wales, Australia.
This book examines how small-scale commercial marijuana production shaped social and economic formation in marginal hinterland communities in late-twentieth-century eastern Australia. As traditional rural industries such as dairying and forestry fell into decline, new settlers arrived and revitalised these hilly, low-income regions—though not always in ways that long-established residents welcomed. With limited access to formal income, some households turned to growing and selling marijuana. Focusing on production rather than distribution, the book shows how the illegality of cannabis connected and normalised the socio-economic periphery, tying remote forest communities to urban markets and embedding informal activity within everyday life. The book reveals how illicit enterprise underpinned community viability and illuminates the broader role of informal economies in Australia’s frontier history and regional development. Based on two decades of immersive, place-based observation, this book will appeal to scholars of anthropology, history, development studies, and rural and regional research.
Adopts a developmental perspective on small-scale commercial marijuana production in eastern Australia Provides conceptual and empirical contributions to frontier history, drug history, and sociology Offers historical context for policy-makers and researchers involved in the legalisation of cannabis
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Roderick Simon Cliff
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Cannabis Marijuana Drug history Socio-economic development Eastern Australia Society Australian frontier history Illegal activity Periphery marijuana production economic formation Hinterlands Socio-economic change Welfare Health