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Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places, Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter

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(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
Language
eng
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Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages)
Contents
  • 5.
  • How does prohibition affect drug use
  • 6.
  • How does prohibition affect drug harms
  • 7.
  • Other vices : prostitution and gambling
  • 8.
  • Other substances : alcohol and cigarettes
  • 9.
  • U.S. experience with legal cocaine and heroin
  • 1.
  • 10.
  • Learning from European experiences
  • 11.
  • Cannabis policies in The Netherlands
  • 12.
  • Harm reduction in Europe
  • 13.
  • Summary of the evidence and a framework for assessment
  • 14.
  • Projecting the consequences of alternative regimes
  • Preface and overview
  • 15.
  • Obstacles to moving beyond the drug war
  • 2.
  • Drug prohibition : American style
  • 3. The
  • debate
  • 4.
  • Philosophical underpinnings
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Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places
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Drug war heresies
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learning from other vices, times, and places
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Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter
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Language
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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MacCoun, Robert J
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
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2009 J-824
  • WM 33 AA1
NLM item number
M131d 2001
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1944-
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Reuter, Peter
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RAND studies in policy analysis
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  • Drug legalization
  • Drug control
  • Drug control
  • Drug abuse
  • Drug abuse
  • Drogues
  • Drogue, Lutte contre la
  • Drogue, Lutte contre la
  • Toxicomanie
  • Toxicomanie
  • Drugsbeleid
  • Drug and Narcotic Control
  • Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • Legislation, Drug
  • Public Policy
  • Drogenmissbrauch
  • Entkriminalisierung
  • Drogenabhängigkeit
  • Betäubungsmittelrecht
  • USA
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Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places, Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-455) and index
Contents
  • 5.
  • How does prohibition affect drug use
  • 6.
  • How does prohibition affect drug harms
  • 7.
  • Other vices : prostitution and gambling
  • 8.
  • Other substances : alcohol and cigarettes
  • 9.
  • U.S. experience with legal cocaine and heroin
  • 1.
  • 10.
  • Learning from European experiences
  • 11.
  • Cannabis policies in The Netherlands
  • 12.
  • Harm reduction in Europe
  • 13.
  • Summary of the evidence and a framework for assessment
  • 14.
  • Projecting the consequences of alternative regimes
  • Preface and overview
  • 15.
  • Obstacles to moving beyond the drug war
  • 2.
  • Drug prohibition : American style
  • 3. The
  • debate
  • 4.
  • Philosophical underpinnings
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages)
Form of item
online
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)56115915
Label
Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places, Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-455) and index
Contents
  • 5.
  • How does prohibition affect drug use
  • 6.
  • How does prohibition affect drug harms
  • 7.
  • Other vices : prostitution and gambling
  • 8.
  • Other substances : alcohol and cigarettes
  • 9.
  • U.S. experience with legal cocaine and heroin
  • 1.
  • 10.
  • Learning from European experiences
  • 11.
  • Cannabis policies in The Netherlands
  • 12.
  • Harm reduction in Europe
  • 13.
  • Summary of the evidence and a framework for assessment
  • 14.
  • Projecting the consequences of alternative regimes
  • Preface and overview
  • 15.
  • Obstacles to moving beyond the drug war
  • 2.
  • Drug prohibition : American style
  • 3. The
  • debate
  • 4.
  • Philosophical underpinnings
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages)
Form of item
online
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)56115915

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