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Public policy has failed to prevent large-scale consumption of cannabis in most developed countries. So what, if anything, should we do to change the policy environment? Cannabis consumption is unambiguously harmful in several ways, but this doe[...]
This study, using data from the British Crime Survey (BCS), examines the effect of drug use on occupational achievement. It starts by attempting to overcome the identification problem that results from the limited set of drug use questions prese[...]
Legalizing and taxing cannabis could mean revenue for the UK’s government of £1.25 billion a year (€1.50 billion). A saving of £300 million alone could be made from the reduced use of police and judiciary as well as the lower cost of penitentiar[...]
The Drug Harm Index captures the harms generated by the problematic use of any illegal drug by combining robust national indicators into a single-figure time-series index. The harms include drug-related crime, community perceptions of drug probl[...]
ENGLISH : Introduction article to the Special Issue: "The economics of illicit drugs".
FRANÇAIS : Les auteurs enquêtent sur le fait de savoir si la consommation de drogues dures et/ou douces influe sur la probabilité d'un usager de drogues d'être chômeur et sur sa réussite professionnelle s'il travaille. Ils utilisent les donnée[...]
This is a study of the occurrence and timing of young peoples first use of various types of illicit drug and their first experience of various types of offending, including truancy. Its aim is to investigate the gateway effect - the hypothesis t[...]
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