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Would Harassing Drug Users Work?

Li Way Lee

Journal of Political Economy · 1993 · Volume 101 · Issue 5

DOI: 10.1086/261910

Abstract

When harassed users adopt new ways of transaction, supply changes in predictable ways. This linkage between demand and supply can explain a number of puzzling consequences of the decriminalization of marijuana and the war on heroin and cocaine.

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