Citation

Levine HG, Reinarman C. Milbank Q. 1991; 69(3): 461-494.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing 11367.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Milbank Memorial Fund, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1805116

Abstract

Like current drug prohibition, alcohol prohibition in the 1920s produced a large criminalized industry. Post-repeal alcohol regulation, which tended to limit overall consumption, suggests that the legal regulated sale of currently illicit substances is technically practical and reasonable. However, no such radical change in drug policy will be politically feasible until well into the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, the failures and costs of the War on Drugs make moderate reform a more promising prospect.

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