New evidence on the tenuous state of evidence‐based drug policy

MacCoun, Robert J.

doi:10.1111/add.12533

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“…First, we would like to thank the two authors MacCoun [1] and Caulkins [2] for their detailed reading of our paper and for widening the debate with some interesting additions. We would like to preface our response by recognizing the specifically British context within which we write, and therefore some of the peculiarities of the ratchet to British new psychoactive substances (NPS) policy.…”

Section: Widening the Debate On The Drug Policy Ratchet: Response To mentioning

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Widening the debate on the drug policy ratchet: response to commentaries

Measham

Stevens

2014

Addiction

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was a 42% decline in arrests per day of marijuana use; but does that count against the ratchet hypothesis? Perhaps not, as it is unclear whether scientific evidence has played much of a role, relative to changing attitudes, demographics and state budgets; and, of course, we would have a larger body of medical evidence on marijuana if not for the tenuous state of what passes for evidence-based policymaking in this domain. Declaration of interestsNone.

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Section: Widening the Debate On The Drug Policy Ratchet: Response To mentioning

confidence: 99%