Marijuana : Costs of Abuse, Costs of Control
Author: Mark A.R. Kleiman
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ISBN: 0313258538
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group (26 June, 1989)
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Still timely
Wondering if marijuana should be legalised? Or kept forbidden? Perhaps you have no strong feelings either way, but are interested in some neutral information that is reasonably well argued. You don't want a stridently "anti" screed, a la William [Reefer Madness] Bennett. Neither do you want something issued by a long time, zonked out, dreadlocked subscriber to High Times.Take a gander here. Kleiman analyses marijuana with a strong economic bent. He shows various supply-demand curves for it, treating it as a regular commodity, subject to classical economic analysis. He also looks similarly at drug enforcement effectiveness and various elasticities of demand.
The book was published in 1989 and his data is thence from the 80s. Still timely. In parts of the US and elsewhere, there has been some slight easing of prohibition. But much of the status quo of the 80s remains, as though in a time warp.
Kleiman also provides a comprehensive appendix. Useful if you want original sources.
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