Doing drugs
The Economist also has an article on the British government’s recent more punitive approach towards drugs. Prohibition doesn’t work, the article argues:
Opponents say that prohibition has little effect on supply or demand. That’s wrong: as well as raising prices, it makes quality more erratic. Higher transport and storage costs mean that more potent drugs push out less potent ones. As the New York politician Fiorella LaGuardia put it in the 1920s: “There may not be as much liquor in quantity consumed today as there was before prohibition, but there is just as much alcohol.” …
Fashion matters even more … The best deterrent to drug taking is unfashionability - something that is closely associated with endorsement by the government.
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