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



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Autore: MacCoun Robert J Visualizza persona
Titolo: Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places / / Robert J. MacCoun, Peter Reuter Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, U.K. ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2001
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 364.1/77/0973
Soggetto topico: Drug legalization - United States
Drug control - United States
Drug control
Drug abuse - Government policy - United States
Drug abuse - Government policy
Altri autori: ReuterPeter <1944->  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Drug war heresies  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-11348-2
1-280-15315-6
0-511-11653-5
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0-511-32345-X
0-511-75427-2
0-511-05371-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810633403321
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Serie: RAND studies in policy analysis.