Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places

The Resource Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places
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Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places
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learning from other vices, times, and places
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Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter
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eng
Summary
(Publisher-supplied data) This book provides the first multidisciplinary and nonpartisan analysis of how the United States should decide on the legal status of cocaine, heroin and marijuana. It draws on data about the experiences of Western European nations with less punitive drug policies as well as new analyses of America's experience with legal cocaine and heroin a century ago, and of America's efforts to regulate gambling, prostitution, alcohol and cigarettes. It offers projections on the likely consequences of a number of different legalization regimes and shows that the choice about how to regulate drugs involves complicated tradeoffs among goals and conflict among social groups. The book presents a sophisticated discussion of how society should deal with the uncertainty about the consequences of legal change. Finally, it explains, in terms of individual attitudes toward risk, why it is so difficult to accomplish substantial reform of drug policy in America
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DLC
Dewey number
364.1/77/0973
Index
index present
LC call number
HV5825
LC item number
.M225 2001
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2009 J-824
  • WM 33 AA1
NLM item number
M131d 2001
Series statement
RAND studies in policy analysis

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