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Lawful access to cannabis : gains, losses and design criteria

Kleiman, Mark; Ziskind, Jeremy - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 3, pp. 272-278

"Legalisation" does not specify a policy. Cannabis could be made available for use by adults under a wide variety of conditions: cheap or expensive, offered by for-profit enterprises, by not-for-profits (including consumer co-operatives), as a state monopoly (for production or sales or both), or...

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Illusions clouding decision-making : how the justice system fails to understand the illicit drug market

Paiva, Luiz Guilherme Mendes de; Carlos, Juliana de Oliveira - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 2, pp. 220-225

This paper reviews some of the main research on drug law enforcement in Brazil since the 2006 Drug Law came into force, noting a clear and constant pattern of police and judicial focus directed at retail drug trafficking, decisively impacting current incarceration rates. It then examines the...

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Mexico's long war on drugs : past and present failures of a punitive approach to drugs

Kloppe-Santamaría, Gema - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 4 (2022) 2, pp. 223-229

The aim of this policy commentary is two-fold. First, to examine new historical research regarding the political, cultural, and social drivers informing the design and implementation of Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’ - a set of state policies centered on punitive and militarized responses towards...

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Mitigating crime and violence in coca-growing areas

Mortensen, Thomas; Gutierrez, Eric - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 1, pp. 63-71

Puzzled about why and how coca-growing areas in Bolivia do not have the same levels of violence and criminality experienced in their communities, eight peasant leaders from various coca-growing areas of Colombia joined a study tour to investigate. Notwithstanding differences in histories of...

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Low impact, wrong direction : why São Paulo state drug policy is inefficient and ineffective

Silva, Leonardo de Carvalho; Langeani, Bruno - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 2, pp. 204-219

This paper is the result of the study Apreensões de drogas no estado de São Paulo: Um raio-x das apreensões de drogas segundo ocorrências e massa [Drug Seizures in the State of São Paulo: An In-Depth View of Drug Seizures Broken Down by Number of Incidents and Drug Amounts], conducted by...

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Will regulating drug markets help governments to better control organized crime?

Schneider, Christian - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 3, pp. 288-293

regulation, expectations about the impact of regulation on organized crime control might be too high. Regulation might create … opportunities to better fight organized crime, but policy-makers are likely to be confronted with a range of sometimes uncomfortable … choices in dealing with this new situation. If drug market regulation will result in better control of organized crime is …

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Informing health-friendly drug policy in Africa : a comment on the challenge of drug consumption data

Csete, Joanne - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 5 (2024) 3, pp. 27-36

Considerable resources have been spent on estimating the size of populations of people who use drugs (PWUD) and people who inject drugs (PWID) in Africa. Precise estimates are elusive, not least because of stigma and criminalization faced by these populations. Bio-behavioral surveys focused on...

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Incarcerating at any cost : drug trafficking and imprisonment in Brazilian court reasoning

Machado, Maíra Rocha; Souza Amaral, Mariana Celano de; … - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 1 (2019) 2, pp. 226-237

Brazil has the third largest prison population worldwide-over 700,000 people. At least 28% of them are in prison for drug trafficking. Given that situation, this paper explores the conflicts among the law; the Supremo Tribunal Federal, or Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) and lower court...

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Colombia, the drug wars and the politics of drug policy displacement : from la Violencia to UNGASS 2016

Collins, John; Alarcón, Karen Torres - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 3 (2021) 2, pp. 190-205

This article breaks new conceptual ground by questioning orthodox interpretations of nation state agency in the global drug wars. Specifically, it challenges the David vs. Goliath conception of Colombia as a passive, client state simply abiding to the United States' hegemonic war on drugs. It...

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Research handbook on international drug policy

Stothard, Blaine - In: Journal of illicit economies and development : JIED 3 (2021) 2, pp. 224-228

This volume is part of the response to the 2016 UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on international drug policy and the emergence of analysis of international drug policy in academic literature. Editors David Bewley-Taylor and Khalid Tinasti, both respected authors in their own right,...

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