Mark Kleiman

Jonathan P. Caulkins

Robert J. MacCoun

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Beau Kilmer

Gregory Midgette

Pat Oglesby

Peter H. Reuter

Marijuana legalization is a controversial and multifaceted issue that is now the subject of serious debate. In May 2014, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed a bill requiring the Secretary of Administration to produce a report about various consequences of legalizing marijuana. This resulting report provides a foundation for thinking about the various consequences of different policy options while being explicit about the uncertainties involved.

Insights for Vermont and Other Jurisdictions

Considering Marijuana Legalization

Peter Reuter

Professor in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Criminology Peter Reuter

(Publisher-supplied data) This book provides the first multidisciplinary and nonpartisan analysis of how the United States should decide on the legal status of cocaine, heroin and marijuana. It draws on data about the experiences of Western European nations with less punitive drug policies as well as new analyses of America's experience with legal cocaine and heroin a century ago, and of America's efforts to regulate gambling, prostitution, alcohol and cigarettes. It offers projections on the likely consequences of a number of different legalization regimes and shows that the choice about how to regulate drugs involves complicated tradeoffs among goals and conflict among social groups. The book presents a sophisticated discussion of how society should deal with the uncertainty about the consequences of legal change. Finally, it explains, in terms of individual attitudes toward risk, why it is so difficult to accomplish substantial reform of drug policy in America.

Learning from Other Vices, Times, and Places

Drug War Heresies

Robert J. MacCoun

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