Dr Axel Klein

About

Axel works on the impact that policy and markets have on drugs and drug use. A social anthropologist by training, he has worked for both the charity sector (ISSD, DrugScope) and inter-governmental agencies (EC, UNODC), and has conducted fieldwork and evaluations in over 20 countries, including Afghanistan, China, Jamaica and Nigeria. His interests include problematic and recreational substance use, the culture of consumption, drug policy and criminal justice reform.

He is the editor of the journal Drugs and Alcohol Today. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Drug Policy Observatory, University of Swansea.

He is currently organising the CBCD webinar People and Psychoactive Plants.

Some Publications:

Klein, A., 2008. Drugs and the World. Reaktion Books.

Anderson, D., Beckerleg, S., Hailu, D. and Klein, A., 2020. The khat controversy: Stimulating the debate on drugs. Routledge.

Klein, A. and Potter, G.R., 2018. The three betrayals of the medical cannabis growing activist: From multiple victimhood to reconstruction, redemption and activism. International Journal of Drug Policy, 53, pp.65-72.

Potter, G.R., Barratt, M.J., Malm, A., Bouchard, M., Blok, T., Christensen, A.S., Decorte, T., Frank, V.A., Hakkarainen, P., Klein, A. and Lenton, S., 2016. Global patterns of domestic cannabis cultivation: Sample characteristics and patterns of growing across eleven countries. In Friendly business (pp. 163-196). Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Klein, A., et al. 2013. Cannabis use during a life course–integrating cannabis use into everyday life. Drugs and Alcohol Today.