PPOL 7065 - Drug Abuse Control Policy

The abuse of psychoactive drugs can damage drug users and lead them to damage other people. Policies aimed at controlling drug abuse-especially drug prohibition and its enforcement-generate harms of their own. What set of policies toward currently legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco and currently illegal drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin would minimize the total social damage from drug abuse and drug abuse control?

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