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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Drug war heresies :/ Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter.
Reminder of title:	learning from other vices, times, and places /
Author:	MacCoun, Robert J.,
other author:	Reuter, Peter,
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Drug legalization - United States. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754272
ISBN:	9780511754272 (ebook)

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

Drug war heresies :learning from other vices, times, and places /Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter. - 1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - RAND studies in policy analysis. - RAND studies in policy analysis..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Preface and overview --1.

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.

ISBN: 9780511754272 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1176663
Drug legalization
--United States.

LC Class. No.: HV5825 / .M225 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 364.1/77/0973

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