I am a first year Geography masters student. I would like some help or some input on any thesis ideas relating to illegal drugs. I have thought of a few ideas, for example, looking at making a GIS model on illegal drug vulnerability, looking at the effects of illegal drugs on a city, a Marxist based approach to "the drug war", a philosophical based approach with power being a key concept to "the drug war", a spatial patterns analysis of methamphetamine in the central valley of California, and recently my professor asked me to look at how banks launder money for drug cartels or something to that effect.
I have looked at some of the topics above, but have not gone too deep in the literature yet. I was hoping I can come up with something soon so I can get started. My ideal thesis would have some aspect of GIS, have to deal with illegal drugs, have some statistics and spatial statistics in it, not have a survey involved in it, maybe have a geopolitical side to it and also have a economic aspect to it, because I do like economic geography. I also would like to have a thesis that leads to illegal drug reform that ends "the war on drugs".
That said, I am open to almost anything. If you could point me to some articles, topics, actual Thesis ideas, books, cool related topics or even professors who do work in the filed or even firms that would be great, Or give me further readings to some of the ideas I mentioned above or even some data sets I could work with. Keep in mind it can be very limiting. For one it is dangerous to study distribution and production so I want to stay away from those as my professor mentioned to me already.
If you have any questions let me know. I can be more specific if I need to be.
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I have looked at some of the topics above, but have not gone too deep in the literature yet. I was hoping I can come up with something soon so I can get started. My ideal thesis would have some aspect of GIS, have to deal with illegal drugs, have some statistics and spatial statistics in it, not have a survey involved in it, maybe have a geopolitical side to it and also have a economic aspect to it, because I do like economic geography. I also would like to have a thesis that leads to illegal drug reform that ends "the war on drugs".
That said, I am open to almost anything. If you could point me to some articles, topics, actual Thesis ideas, books, cool related topics or even professors who do work in the filed or even firms that would be great, Or give me further readings to some of the ideas I mentioned above or even some data sets I could work with. Keep in mind it can be very limiting. For one it is dangerous to study distribution and production so I want to stay away from those as my professor mentioned to me already.
If you have any questions let me know. I can be more specific if I need to be.
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