Regulating Global Drug Problems

Seddon, Toby

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2261026

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“…We can expect, then, that this dynamic will change as the balance of that system is altered. Regulatory design needs to understand the ways in which it is constitutive of the markets it seeks to control (Seddon, 2013;Shearing, 1993). As new approaches like the New Zealand model are implemented, the NPS phenomenon, and the policy problems it presents, will change.…”

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“…Put bluntly, are the current mechanisms for making drug policy up to the job? In this paper, it will be argued that in order to meet both the substantive and governance challenges, we need to rethink the problem through the lens of regulation (Ritter, 2010;Seddon, 2013). these examples might be applied to policy-making directed at the NPS problem.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Drug policy and global regulatory capitalism: The case of new psychoactive substances (NPS)

Seddon

2014

International Journal of Drug Policy

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The recent emergence of vibrant markets in 'new psychoactive substances' or 'legal highs' has posed significant new challenges for drug policy. These partly concern what to do about them but the speed and complexity of change has also raised difficulties for how policy responses should be developed. Existing drug policy systems appear too slow and cumbersome to keep up with the pace of change, remaining locked in large part within 'old' ways of thinking that centre almost exclusively around the deployment (or not) of the criminal law and its related enforcement apparatus. In this paper, it is argued that we need to rethink the problem through the lens of regulation, in order to learn lessons from other sectors where more agile responses to changing markets and business innovation have often proved possible. By examining examples drawn from these other areas, an alternative policy-making framework can be developed, involving a more flexible mix of state regulation, civil society action and private law mechanisms. This new approach is founded on a recognition of the networked and polycentric character of effective market governance in an era of global regulatory capitalism.

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confidence: 99%