Obradovic

Ivana

Ivana Obradovic is the Deputy Director of the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (Observatoire français des drogues et des tendances addictives) and an Associate Researcher at university, in the Centre de recherches sociologiques sur le droit et les institutions pénales (CESDIP). Her main research interests are focused on drug policy models and cannabis policy issues. She is currently supervising a research project focused on the comparison between cannabis regulatory regimes developed in 6 jurisdictions in North America (Washington, Oregon, California in the US & British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec in Canada), in partnership with political scientists from the University of Quebec in Montreal and from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Her recent publications include collective articles (with Gourdet C., Gagnon F., Moscetti C. (2021) Regulating private and public places of non- medical cannabis consumption in North America: Public health and public safety issues. Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 55, n° 2 (Critical perspectives on cannabis in Canada), p. 279-306) and original research results (2021, From prohibition to regulation: A comparative analysis of the emergence and related outcomes of new legal cannabis policy models (Colorado, Washington State and Uruguay). International Journal of Drug Policy, Vol. 91). She also published a summary book on scientific knowledge on cannabis-related issues (Le Cannabis, Paris, La Découverte, collection « Repères », 2022).