1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449883203321

Autore

MacCoun Robert J.

Titolo

Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places / / Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-11348-2

1-280-15315-6

0-511-11653-5

0-511-01792-8

0-511-15485-2

0-511-32345-X

0-511-75427-2

0-511-05371-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

RAND studies in policy analysis

Disciplina

364.1/77/0973

Soggetti

Drug legalization - United States

Drug control - United States

Drug control

Drug abuse - Government policy - United States

Drug abuse - Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 410-455) and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. Preface and overview -- ; 2. Drug prohibition : American style -- ; 3. The debate -- ; 4. Philosophical underpinnings -- ; 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 -- ; 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 -- ; 15. Obstacles to moving beyond the drug war.

Sommario/riassunto

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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Record Nr.

UNINA9910685500303321

Titolo

Il rapporto tra diritto, economia e altri saperi : la rivincita del diritto : atti della Lectio magistralis di Guido Calabresi in occasione della chiusura dell'anno accademico del Dottorato in studi giuridici comparati ed europei, Facoltà di giurisprudenza, Trento, 24 ottobre 2019 / a cura di Giuseppe Bellantuono, Umberto Izzo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Napoli, : Editoriale scientifica, 2022

ISBN

9791259762504

Descrizione fisica

83 p. ; 23 cm

Collana

Quaderni della Facoltà di giurisprudenza dell'Università degli studi di Trento ; 55

Disciplina

340.115

Locazione

FGBC

Collocazione

UNIV. 592 (55)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia