TY - BOOK ID - 17989270 TI - Drug war heresies : learning from other vices, times, and places AU - MacCoun, Robert J. AU - Reuter, Peter PY - 2001 SN - 052179997X 0521572630 9780521799973 9780521572637 9780511754272 1107113482 0511116535 0511017928 0511154852 051132345X 0511754272 1280153156 0511053711 9780511017926 051103847X 9780511038471 9780511116537 9780511053719 9781280153150 9786610153152 6610153159 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Drug abuse KW - Drug control KW - Drug legalization KW - Government policy KW - Cross-cultural studies. KW - Criminal law. Criminal procedure KW - Social problems KW - Toxicology KW - United States KW - Drug enforcement KW - Drug law enforcement KW - Drug policy KW - Drug traffic KW - Drug traffic control KW - Drugs KW - Narcotics, Control of KW - War on drugs KW - Vice control KW - Drug use KW - Recreational drug use KW - Substance abuse KW - Government policy&delete& KW - Cross-cultural studies KW - Drogues KW - Jeu KW - Business, Economy and Management KW - Economics KW - Alcool KW - Alternatives KW - Prostitution KW - Tabac KW - Tolerance zero KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17989270 AB - 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. ER -