The appearance of “grow shop” and “smart shop” in Spain and the changes in the use of drugs according to their customer
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20882/adicciones.431Keywords:
Grow Shop, Smartshop, drugs, cannabis, consumption, shopAbstract
In the last years in Spain a great number of shops has opened under the denomination of Grow Shop & Smartshop. In this shops is possible to buy plants, seeds, clothes, cosmetics, objects and utensils for the cultivation of different drugs. To know the characteristics of their users a study was made in two stores of Santiago of Composela (Spain) with 100 clients interviewed at random. The drug consumptions, purchase of products in the stores, organization of their recreational life, perception of risk of the different drugs, and obtaining and traffic with the same ones were analyzed. The results show that half of them are habitual consumers of cannabis, that the predominant age of their users is from 18 to 25 years, that have a low perception of the risk in general, a bigger level of recreational life, and behaviors related with the consumption of drugs. Based on this results we discuss the role of these shops in the consumption of drugs and of the buyers.References
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