Drugs and Drug Policy
What Everyone Needs to Know®
While there have always been norms and customs around the use of drugs, explicit public policies--regulations, taxes, and prohibitions--designed to control drug abuse are a more recent phenomenon. Those policies sometimes have terrible side-effects: most prominently the development of criminal enterprises dealing in forbidden (or untaxed) drugs and the use of the profits of drug-dealing to finance insurgency and terrorism. Neither a drug-free world nor a world of free drugs seems to be on offer, leaving citizens and officials to face the age-old problem: What are we going to do about drugs?In Drugs and Drug Policy, three noted authorities sur…
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Weitere Autoren: Caulkins, Jonathan P. / Hawken, Angela
- ISBN: 978-0-19-983138-8
- EAN: 9780199831388
- Produktnummer: 16941351
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'140 KB
Über den Autor
Mark Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy at UCLA and editor of The Journal of Drug Policy Analysis. He is Washington state's lead adviser on the legalization of marijuana, and was named by Politico Magazine as one of the Politico 50, a list of the key thinkers, doers and visionaries reshaping American politics. He is the author of When Brute Force Fails and Against Excess.Jonathan P. Caulkins is Stever Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University.Angela Hawken is Associate Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.
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