Contents: Preface, Peter Reuter; The globalization of cannabis cultivation, Gary R. Potter, Martin Bouchard and Tom Decorte; Part I Traditional Producer Nations: Peculiar and perplexed - the complexity of ganja cultivation in the English speaking Caribbean, Axel Klein; Cannabis cultivation practices in the Moroccan Rif, Kenza Afsahi. Part II Growing in the Developed World: Medical marijuana - exploring the concept in relation to small scale cannabis growers in Denmark, Helle Vibeke Dahl and Vibeke Asmussen Frank; With a little help from my friends - justifications of small scale cannabis growers, Pekka Hakkarainen and Jussi Perälä; 'Stories', 'facts' and 'myths'. Perceptions of domestic cultivators on potency and quality of cannabis, Tom Decorte; Professionals or amateurs? Revisiting the notion of professional crime in the context of cannabis cultivation, Martin Bouchard and Holly Nguyen; Co-offending networks in cannabis cultivation, Aili Malm, Rebecca Nash and Samuel Vickovic; Cannabis cultivation in the United States, Ralph A. Weisheit; Cannabis cultivation in Spain - the case of cannabis social clubs, Xabier Arana and Virginia Montañés Sánchez. Part III Responses to Growing in the Developed World: Marihuana behind and beyond coffee shops, Dirk J. Korf; Reforming laws applying to domestic cannabis production as a harm reduction strategy - a case study, Simon Lenton; A review of cannabis properties and experiments for its biological control, Margaret Kalacska, Pablo Arroyo-Mora, Eva Snirer and Rick Parent; The seizure rate of cannabis crop eradication operations in New Zealand, 1998-2009, Chris Wilkins and Paul Sweetsur; Keeping down the weeds: cannabis eradication in the developed world, Gary R. Potter; Emerging trends in cannabis cultivation - and the way forward, Martin Bouchard, Gary R. Potter and Tom Decorte; Index.