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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 May 2010
      27 August 2001
      ISBN:
      9780511754272
      9780521799973
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511754272
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      Weight & Pages:
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.668kg, 496 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Criminology, Macroeconomics, American Government, Politics and Policy, Sociology
      Series:
      RAND Studies in Policy Analysis
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Criminology, Macroeconomics, American Government, Politics and Policy, Sociology
    Series:
    RAND Studies in Policy Analysis
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    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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    ‘This book is without doubt the most scholarly and significant contribution to what has become a passionate but circular debate … overall this is an experts’ expert book and it is likely to become the classic text on drug policy reform.’

    Source: British Medical Journal

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