Small-Denomination Paper Currency as the Focus of Supply-Reduction Drug Policy

2001 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-25
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Bernard ◽  
Eric Hains
Keyword(s):  
Harm Reduction ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Banking System ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Illegal Drugs ◽  
Drug Sales ◽  
Paper Currency ◽  
Drug Legalization ◽  
Supply Reduction

Efforts to impede the supply of illegal drugs and the laundering of illegal drug money have been expensive and largely ineffective. The authors propose that supply-reduction drug policy concentrate on impeding the reintroduction into the banking system of the large volumes of small-denomination paper currency (primarily $1, $5, $10, and $20 bills) generated in street-level drug sales. Such highly focused policy might better achieve the supply-reduction goals of the “war on drugs” advocates and the harm-reduction goals of drug legalization advocates.

scholarly journals Visions of Peace Amidst a Human Rights Crisis: War on Drugs in Colombia and the Philippines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Santino F Regilme
Keyword(s):  
War On Drugs ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Public Health Approach ◽  
Illegal Drugs ◽  
Drug Problem ◽  
State Repression ◽  
The Core ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Local Discourses

Abstract Peace is one of most widely used yet highly contested concepts in contemporary politics. What constitutes peace? That broad analytic inquiry motivates this article, which focuses on the contentious discourses of peace within a society besieged by widespread trafficking and use of illegal drugs. Focusing on the illegal drug problem in Colombia and the Philippines, the central puzzle of this paper constitutes two fundamental questions: How do state leaders justify their respective “war on drugs”? How do they construct and discursively articulate ideals of peace in the context of the illegal drug problem? This paper compares the post-9/11 Colombian war on drugs (2002–2010) vis-à-vis the Philippine war on drugs under the Duterte administration (2016–2019), particularly in terms of how their presidential administrations articulate “peace” in the context of resolving the drug problem. The paper examines the varying discourses of peace, investigates how those local discourses relate to global discourses on peace and illegal drugs, and underscores how and under which conditions those peace discourses portray the material distributive conflicts in those societies. The core argument states that the Uribe and Duterte administrations primarily deployed the notion of peace as a justificatory discourse for increased state repression, intensified criminalization of the drug problem, and the reluctance of the state in embracing a public health approach to the proliferation of illegal drugs.

Drug Legalization, the Drug War, and Drug Treatment in Historical Perspective

1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
David T. Courtwright
Keyword(s):  
Drug Treatment ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Drug War ◽  
Drug Legalization

One thing that all parties in the American drug-policy debate agree upon is the desirability of eliminating the traffic in illicit drugs and the esurient criminal syndicates that control it. There are two divergent strategies for achieving this end. The first is the war on drugs. The second, which emerged in the late 1980s as a highly controversial alternative to the drug war, is controlled legalization. What follows is a historically informed critique of both approaches.

The “War on Drugs” in Mexico: (Official) Database of Events between December 2006 and November 2011

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (7) ◽  
pp. 1765-1789 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura H. Atuesta ◽  
Oscar S. Siordia ◽  
Alejandro Madrazo Lajous
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Drug Policy ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Public Records ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Drug Production ◽  
Policy Program

The objective of this text is to describe the three categories that the Drug Policy Program at the Center for Teaching and Research in Economics (CIDE-PPD) database comprises, their limitations, and their main features. Additionally, we explain what we believe to be the source of the database we originally received and analyze its accuracy by comparing it with public records. We describe the validation and codification processes the database was subjected to, as well as the main biases and limitations the database may have. Additionally, we offer a preliminary analysis of the type of research that the CIDE-PPD Database can support. This analysis is not only relevant to those interested in studying the “war on drugs” in Mexico but also to those studying conflict in other countries involved in illegal drug production and trafficking, as well as countries experiencing conflicts related to organized crime.

scholarly journals The Promise and Demise of LSD Psychotherapy in Norway

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per Haave ◽  
Willy Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Drug Policy ◽  
Gold Standard ◽  
Therapeutic Efficacy ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
War On Drugs ◽  
Illegal Drug ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Illegal Drug Use ◽  
Youth Groups ◽  
Youth Subcultures

Abstract In the early-to-mid 1960s, there was considerable use of LSD in psychotherapy in several countries. However, its use gradually levelled off. Two explanations have been suggested: The first revolves around a ‘moral panic’ in the wake of the introduction of cannabis and LSD by subcultural youth groups. The second focuses on the lack of proof for the therapeutic efficacy of LSD at a time when double-blind designs became the gold standard. Using available sources, we explore the Norwegian case. Both explanations are supported: Even before illegal drug use had taken root in youth subcultures, scepticism was gradually building among key figures in the Norwegian healthcare system due to lack of evidence for therapeutic efficacy. This scepticism only increased when the new youth subcultures became visible in the mid-1960s and when the ‘war on drugs’ transformed the drug policy.

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