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Drug prohibition: A legal and economic analysis

Author(s) -

Walter E. Block

Publication year - 1993

Publication title -

journal of business ethics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.209

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1573-0697

pISSN - 0167-4544

DOI - 10.1007/bf00881383

Subject(s) - legalization , quality of life research , business ethics , heroin , criminology , law , social policy , black market , illicit drug , law and economics , political science , business , drug , public health , economics , sociology , psychiatry , medicine , nursing

This paper argues the case for the legalization of addictive drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and heroin. It maintains that there are no “market failures’ which could justify a banning of these substances, and that, as in the earlier historical case of prohibition of alcohol, our present drug policy has increased crime, decreased respect for legitimate law, and created great social upheaval.

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