Nonsense Upon Stilts

dc.contributor.author	Crampton, E.
dc.date.accessioned	2012-03-05T01:45:55Z
dc.date.available	2012-03-05T01:45:55Z
dc.date.issued	2009	en
dc.description	Reviewed by the editor of NORML News prior to inclusion, but not peer reviewed.	en
dc.description.abstract	While the social costs of drug use are real, they are not well-measured by instruments such as BERL's Drug Harm Index. The DHI conflates the real costs of drug use with a host of costs borne by drug users, like the cost of buying their marijuana, and the costs of enforcing a prohibition regime. Consequently, it is nonsensical to use the DHI as the basis for evaluating the harms avoided by police drug seizures, especially since the costs of police drug seizures can hardly be avoided by police drug seizures.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Crampton, E. (2009) Nonsense Upon Stilts. Norml News, 13(3), pp. 28-31.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6360
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	University of Canterbury. Department of Economics and Finance	en
dc.rights.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651	en
dc.subject	cost-benefit analysis	en
dc.subject	drug policy	en
dc.subject	cost-benefit analysis	en
dc.subject	drug policy	en
dc.subject.anzsrc	Fields of Research::38 - Economics::3801 - Applied economics::380108 - Health economics	en
dc.title	Nonsense Upon Stilts	en
dc.type	Journal Article

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