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Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Mark A.R. Kleiman
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Description for Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Paperback. In Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know Mark A. R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, and Angela Hawken will provide a comprehensive introduction to domestic drug policy. Series: What Everyone Needs to Know. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFH1; JKVG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 210 x 17. Weight in Grams: 282.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
What Everyone Needs to Know
Condition
New
Weight
309g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199764501
SKU
V9780199764501
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About Mark A.R. Kleiman
Mark A.R. Kleiman is Professor of Public Policy at UCLA, editor of The Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, and 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.
Reviews for Drugs and Drug Policy: What Everyone Needs to Know®
"Drugs and Drug Policy is the product of scholarly work but comes in the form of a guidebook of answers to questions simple and complex about everything to do with the two topics. It is fit for both the policymaker and the concerned parent (how many books can this be said of?) because it combines a ... Read more