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B. KILMER ; S. DAVENPORT ; R. SMART ; J. P. CAULKINS ; G. MIDGETTE | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2019* Research Questions: What types of cannabis products are produced and sold in Washington State? What is the size of the cannabis market in Washington State three years after licensing cannabis production and sales for nonmedical purposes? * [...]Rapport
B. KILMER ; J. P. CAULKINS ; R. L. PACULA ; R. J. MACCOUN ; P. H. REUTER | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Occasional Papers | 2010To learn more about the possible outcomes of marijuana legalization in California, RAND researchers constructed a model based on a series of estimates of current consumption, current and future prices, how responsive use is to price changes, tax[...]Livre
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In recent years a number of studies have attempted to rank drugs by a single measure of harmfulness as the basis for decisions about scheduling and classification. These efforts are fundamentally flawed, both conceptually and methodologically. T[...]Rapport
B. KILMER ; J. P. CAULKINS ; G. MIDGETTE ; L. DAHLKEMPER ; R. J. MACCOUN ; R. L. PACULA | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2013In 2012, Washington state voters passed Initiative 502 (I-502), which removed the prohibition on the production, distribution, and possession of marijuana for nonmedical purposes and required the state to regulate and tax a new marijuana industr[...]Article : Périodique
Having a sense of the scale of an illicit drug market is important for projecting consequences of alternative policy regimes. In this article, we review two general approaches to drug market estimation - supply-side and demand-side - before turn[...]Article : Périodique
Background: A number of countries are legalizing the supply of cannabis or are considering doing so. Beyond top-level design questions (e.g., who gets to supply and how will it be taxed?) lie many equally important and thorny regulatory issues c[...]Article : Périodique
Aims: Drug policy strategies and discussions often use prevalence of drug use as a primary performance indicator. However, three other indicators are at least as relevant: the number of heavy users, total expenditures and total amount consumed. [...]Périodique
J. H. JAFFE ; M. GOSSOP ; M. TYNDALL ; R. E. MANN ; P. REUTER ; W. HAO ; D. WEATHERBURN ; J. P. CAULKINS ; L. DEGENHARDT ; W. HALL ; C. DAY ; P. DIETZE ; L. COLLINS ; POINTER S. | 2005Neuf commentaires sont proposés. Le premier, au regard des résultats de cette étude analyse un événement similaire survenu aux Etats-Unis en 1972/1973. Le deuxième s'intéresse aux conséquences du transfert de l'usage injectable d'héroïne vers l'[...]Rapport
B. KILMER ; J. TAYLOR ; J. P. CAULKINS ; P. A. MUELLER ; A. J. OBER ; B. PARDO ; R. SMART ; L. STRANG ; P. H. REUTER | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2018Current levels of opioid-related morbidity and mortality in the United States are staggering. Data for 2017 indicate that there were more than 47,000 opioid-involved overdose deaths, and one in eight adults now reports having had a family member[...]Article : Périodique
Background and Aims: In 2014 the legislature of Vermont, USA passed a law requiring the Secretary of Administration to report on the consequences of legalizing marijuana. The RAND Corporation was commissioned to write that report. This paper sum[...]Rapport
J. P. CAULKINS ; B. KILMER ; M. A. R. KLEIMAN ; R. J. MACCOUN ; G. MIDGETTE ; P. OGLESBY ; R. L. PACULA ; P. REUTER | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2015Marijuana legalization is a controversial and multifaceted issue that is now the subject of serious debate. Since 2012, four U.S. states have passed ballot initiatives to remove prohibition and legalize a for-profit commercial marijuana industry[...]Article : Périodique
Aims No modern jurisdiction has ever legalized commercial production, distribution and possession of cannabis for recreational purposes. This paper presents insights about the effect of legalization on production costs and consumption and highli[...]Article : Périodique
Until November 2012, no modern jurisdiction had removed the prohibition on the commercial production, distribution, and sale of marijuana for nonmedical purposes - not even the Netherlands. Government agencies in Colorado and Washington are now [...]Périodique
P. REUTER ; J. P. CAULKINS | 2003Une étude de Cunningham & Liu (Addiction 2003 Sep;98(9):1229-37) montre que les trois réglementations sur les précurseurs des méthamphétamines (1989, 1995 et 1997) ont eu pour bénéfice de diminuer les admissions hospitalières dans 3 Etats de l'O[...]Article : Périodique
H. A. POLLACK, Auteur ; P. REUTER, Auteur ; J. P. CAULKINS, Auteur du commentaire ; D. MEJIA, Auteur du commentaire ; V. FELBAB-BROWN, Auteur du commentaire |Aims: To review empirical research that seeks to relate marginal increases in enforcement against the supply of illicit drugs to changes in drug prices at the level of the drug supply system being targeted. Method: Review of empirical studies.[...]Livre
T. F. BABOR ; J. P. CAULKINS ; G. EDWARDS ; B. FISCHER ; D. R. FOXCROFT ; K. HUMPHREYS ; I. S. OBOT ; J. REHM ; P. REUTER ; R. ROOM ; I. ROSSOW ; J. STRANG | Oxford - New York : Oxford University Press | 2010Drug use represents a significant burden to public health through disease, disability and social problems, and policy makers are becoming increasingly interested in how to develop evidence-based drug policy. It is therefore crucial to strengthen[...]Article : Périodique
Objectives. In this report, the author illustrates the historic relation between retail drug prices and emergency department mentions for cocaine and heroin. Methods. Price series based on the Drug Enforcement Administration's system to retrieve[...]Article : Périodique
The fundamental activity of most drug dealers is buying drugs from a supplier and selling them on, usually in smaller lot sizes to multiple customers at a lower market level. Data on such cycles of purchase and resale are derived from interviews[...]Article : Périodique
The past decade has seen a remarkable liberalization of marijuana policies in many parts of the United States. We analyze data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) for coinciding changes in the marijuana market from 2002 to 20[...]Rapport
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BACKGROUND: Globally, heroin and other opioids account for more than half of deaths and years-of-life-lost due to drug use and comprise one of the four major markets for illegal drugs. Having sound estimates of the number of problematic heroin u[...]Article : Périodique
N. SCOTT ; J. P. CAULKINS ; A. RITTER ; C. QUINN ; P. DIETZE |Aims: Methamphetamine-related harms in Victoria have increased recently in the context of stable or declining use prevalence. We determine how changes in price and purity of methamphetamine compared to other drugs such as heroin may, in part, ex[...]Article : Périodique
Enforcement against drug selling remains the principal tool of drug control in the United States and many other countries. Though the risk of incarceration for a drug dealer has risen fivefold or more over the last 25 years in the United States,[...]Article : Périodique
A typology of drug smuggling 'technologies' is developed based on interviews with 110 inmates incarcerated in UK prisons for importing illegal drugs. Approximately three-quarters were involved in courier-based operations. The other 30 collective[...]Article : Périodique
Background: The illegal drug trade is often, and plausibly, asserted to be the largest illegal market, globally and in many individual countries. It is also claimed that a large share of its revenues is laundered, though there are no estimates o[...]Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS ; P. REUTER | 2006ENGLISH : Markets for illicit drugs present an interesting case study for economics, combining non-standard characteristics such as addiction and product illegality. One response has been to argue the generality of economic principles by sugge[...]Article : Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS ; B. PARDO ; B. KILMER |Background: Drug use is often measured in terms of prevalence, meaning the number of people who used any amount in the last month or year, but measuring the quantity consumed is critical for making informed regulatory decisions and estimating th[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Pour le crack et la cocaïne, les prix au détail (estimés à partir de la base de données américaine "STRIDE") sont comparés dans 14 villes des Etats-Unis entre 1986 et 1991. Les prix varient en fonction des villes et des années, mais [...]Article : Périodique
U.S. drug policy has sometimes implicitly - and incorrectly - assumed that all drug-related harm is caused by drug use, so reducing drug use necessarily reduces drug harm proportionately. Instead, drug policy should try to reduce the sum of both[...]Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS ; R. J. MACCOUN | 2003ENGLISH : Drug markets have been targeted for increasingly tough enforcement, yet retail prices for cocaine and heroin have fallen by 70-80%. No research has explained adequately why prices have fallen. This paper explores the possibility that[...]Livre
J. P. CAULKINS ; C. P. RYDELL ; W. L. SCHWABE ; J. CHIESA | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | 1997Laws requiring minimum sentences for certain crimes have become increasingly popular, and the most frequently applied of these mandatory minimums are those pertaining to drug offenders. Proponents and opponents of mandatory minimums generally ar[...]Article : Périodique
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Legalization has been debated for decades, but California's Fall 2010 vote on Proposition 19 makes passage seem suddenly more plausible. Proposition 19, which would have legalized not only personal consumption but also production and distributio[...]Livre
J. P. CAULKINS ; A. HAWKEN ; B. KILMER ; M. A. R. KLEIMAN | Oxford - New York : Oxford University Press | What everyone needs to know | 2012Should marijuana be legalized? The latest Gallup poll reports that exactly half of Americans say "yes"; opinion couldn't be more evenly divided. Marijuana is forbidden by international treaties and by national and local laws across the globe. B[...]Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS ; R. L. PACULA | 2006FRANÇAIS : La vente au détail de cannabis dans la population générale est peu documentée alors qu'un grande partie de la population y participe. Cet article offre une description du marché du cannabis et des habitudes d'achat telles que rapport[...]Article : Périodique
California nearly legalized commercial marijuana production in 2010; in coming years, other states and California are expected to entertain similar proposals. This raises the question of whether marijuana diverted from legal production could dis[...]Article : Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS ; E. DISLEY ; M. TZVETKOVA ; M. PARDAL ; H. SHAH ; X. ZHANG |Multiple layers of dealers connect international drug traffickers to users. The fundamental activity of these dealers is buying from higher-level dealers and re-selling in smaller quantities at the next lower market level. Each instance of this [...]Rapport
J. P. CAULKINS ; K. FURLONG ; B. McCOMAS ; M. NOGUEIRA DOMINGUES ; A. SIDDIQUE ; B. KILMER | Lisbon : OEDT / EMCDDA | Insights, ISSN 1606-1683 | 2022This chapter explores two methods of bringing together the complementary strengths of general population surveys (GPS) and web surveys to develop improved estimates of overall quantities of drugs consumed — namely, raking and regression. Raking [...]Rapport
B. KILMER ; K. KRUITHOF ; M. PARDAL ; J. P. CAULKINS ; J. RUBIN | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2013In July 2013, the Research and Documentation Centre (WODC) of the Netherlands Ministry of Security and Justice asked RAND Europe to provide a multinational overview of cannabis production regimes, with a special focus on identifying and describi[...]Rapport
J. P. CAULKINS ; B. KILMER ; M. A. R. KLEIMAN ; R. J. MACCOUN ; G. MIDGETTE ; P. OGLESBY ; R. L. PACULA ; P. H. REUTER | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Perspectives | 2015Marijuana legalization is a controversial and multifaceted issue that is now the subject of serious debate. Since 2012, four U.S. states have passed ballot initiatives to remove prohibition and legalize a for-profit commercial marijuana industry[...]Bulletin : Périodique
Bulletin des Stupéfiants, Vol.53, n°1-2 - 2001 - Pour une politique dynamique en matière de drogues : comprendre et combattre l'épidémie de drogue
P. REUTER ; J. P. CAULKINS ; E. SINGLE ; C. ROSSI ; D. A. BEHRENS ; G. TRAGLER ; M. J. POSTMA ; J. C. JAGER ; H. POLLACK ; C. ALMEDER ; G. FEICHTINGER ; L. WIESSING ; R. HARTNOLL ; L. RAVA ; M. G. CALVANI ; S. HEISTERKAMP | 2002Le présent numéro comprend des communications initialement présentées lors d'un colloque intitulé "Dynamic drug policy: Understanding and controlling drug epidemics", organisé du 22 au 24 mai 2000 par le Programme des Nations Unies pour le cont[...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : L'estimation de la prévalence des phénomènes liés aux drogues (nombre des usagers, conséquences, niveaux de consommation) peut fournir d'utiles informations pour mesurer l'étendue du problème, identification des modes et tendances d[...]Article : Périodique
This article explores quantity discounts and quality (purity) premia in the prices of illicit drugs. It examines several models of how drug prices might depend on transaction size. A simple relation implied by a tree model of the domestic distri[...]Article : Périodique
The U.S. appears to be on a path toward legalizing cannabis on the alcohol model, which is to say allowing for-profit corporations to produce, sell, and promote its use. Even after national legalization, it will take decades to observe the full [...]NouveautéRapport
B. KILMER ; J. P. CAULKINS ; B. M. BOND ; P. H. REUTER | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Occasional Papers | 2010U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Me[...]Article : Périodique
Aims Decisions on whether and how to 'schedule' drugs (i.e. to determine their legal status and penalties to be applied for sale or possession) are often heavily criticized. We sought to assess more comprehensively the results of such decisions [...]Article : Périodique
FRANÇAIS : Historiquement, la politique de lutte contre la drogue aux Etats-Unis s'est essentiellement focalisée sur la réduction de la consommation ; cependant la réduction des risques se développe aujourd'hui. Dans la mesure où le danger n'es[...]Article : Périodique
Collecting information about the prevalence of cannabis use is necessary but not sufficient for understanding the size, dynamics, and outcomes associated with cannabis markets. This paper uses two data sets describing cannabis consumption in the[...]Article : Périodique
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Supervised consumption sites (SCS) operate in more than 10 countries. SCS have mostly emerged as a bottom-up response to crises, first to HIV/AIDS and now overdose deaths, in ways that make rigorous evaluation difficult. Opi[...]Article : Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS ; A. TALLAKSEN ; J. TAYLOR ; B. KILMER ; P. REUTER |The 2000-2001 and the 2022-2023 Taliban opium bans were and could be two of the largest ever disruptions to a major illegal drug market. To help understand potential implications of the current ban for Europe, this paper analyzes how opioid mark[...]Article : Périodique
ENGLISH : INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: This study compares the costs and consequences of three interventions for reducing heroin dependency: pharmacotherapy maintenance, residential rehabilitation and prison. DESIGN AND METHODS: Using Australian dat[...]Rapport
B. PARDO ; J. TAYLOR ; J. P. CAULKINS ; B. KILMER ; P. REUTER ; B. D. STEIN | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2019Deaths involving synthetic opioids in the United States increased from roughly 3,000 in 2013 to more than 30,000 in 2018. In fact, synthetic opioids like fentanyl are now involved in twice as many deaths as heroin. This book offers a systematic [...]Article : Périodique
Drug demand responds slowly to exogenous shocks because it is dominated by dependent users whose behaviours are slow to change. Hence, although the cumulative effect of the global recession may be large, it is not likely to produce an abrupt ste[...]Article : Périodique
V. LORENZETTI ; C. HINDOCHA ; K. PETRILLI ; P. GRIFFITHS ; J. BROWN ; A. CASTILLO-CARNIGLIA ; J. P. CAULKINS ; A. ENGLUND ; M. A. ElSOHLY ; S. H. GAGE ; T. GROSHKOVA ; A. GUAL ; D. HAMMOND ; W. LAWN ; H. LOPEZ-PELAYO ; J. MANTHEY ; C. MOKRYSZ ; R. L. PACULA ; M. VAN LAAR ; R. VANDREY ; E. WADSWORTH ; A. WINSTOCK ; W. HALL ; H. V. CURRAN ; T. P. FREEMAN |BACKGROUND: The lack of an agreed international minimum approach to measuring cannabis use hinders the integration of multidisciplinary evidence on the psychosocial, neurocognitive, clinical and public health consequences of cannabis use. METH[...]Rapport
B. KILMER ; J. P. CAULKINS ; R. L. PACULA ; P. H. REUTER | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Occasional Papers | 2012Discussions about reducing the harms associated with drug use and antidrug policies are often politicized, infused with questionable data, and unproductive. This paper provides a nonpartisan primer that should be of interest to those who are new[...]Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS | 1992FRANÇAIS : Etude sur le déplacement (physique ou autre) des marchés et du trafic des drogues, en liaison avec la politique répressive. La conclusion est que ce type de politique ne peut éliminer mais seulement "déplacer" le problème. ENGLISH :[...]Article : Périodique
R. SMART ; J. P. CAULKINS ; B. KILMER ; S. DAVENPORT ; G. MIDGETTE |Aims: To (1) assess trends and variation in the market share of product types and potency sold in a legal cannabis retail market and (2) estimate how potency and purchase quantity influence price variation for cannabis flower. Design: Secondar[...]Rapport
B. KILMER ; S. S. EVERINGHAM ; J. P. CAULKINS ; G. MIDGETTE ; R. L. PACULA ; P. H. REUTER ; R. M. BURNS ; B. HAN ; R. LUNDBERG | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2014In January 2012, the U.S. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) asked RAND to generate national estimates of the total number of users, total expenditures, and total consumption for four illicit drugs from 2000 to 2010: coca[...]Rapport
G. MIDGETTE ; S. DAVENPORT ; J. P. CAULKINS ; B. KILMER | Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation | Research Reports | 2019Research questions: How many people are using cocaine (including crack), heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine in the United States? How much are they using? How much money are they spending? How have these quantities changed over time? [...]Congrès
J. P. CAULKINS | 1996FRANÇAIS : L'auteur démontre, à partir d'exemples, que la modélisation mathématique peut contribuer de trois façons à l'élaboration de politiques de réduction des risques : en contribuant à l'efficacité des évaluations quantitatives, en amélior[...]Périodique
J. P. CAULKINS | 1996FRANÇAIS : Ce document démontre, principalement par des exemples, que la création de modèles mathématiques peut contribuer à l'élaboration d'une politique sur la drogue orientée vers la réduction des risques de 3 façons : 1) en contribuant aux [...]