Nikolay Anguelov

From Criminalizing to Decriminalizing Marijuana

The Politics of Social Control

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tracks the political history and specific political actions associated with the diffusion of state-level marijuana decriminalization. It provides an integrated chronology of policy diffusion to show how social and cultural changes have impacted the shift from anti- to pro-marijuana political platforms. The main contributions are an interdisciplinary approach to analyzing policy learning and evolution, an overview of the political history of marijuana criminalization, a clear synthesis of the medical literature on cannabis effects, and a supply and demand analysis of legal and illegal marijuana markets in America. For scholars of criminal justice, law, political science, policy studies, sociology and addiction, it provides an amalgam of the diverse and divergent extant research on marijuana.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 419g
• ISBN-13: 9781498566223
• ISBN-10: 1498566227
• Artikelnr.: 53216665

Autorenporträt

Nikolay Anguelov is assistant professor of public policy at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. Michael P. McCarthy is research associate at the Public Policy Center, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: Criminalizing Marijuana: The Diffusion of
Anti-Marijuana Laws from the Southern Border to the Federal Government
Nikolay Anguelov and Michael P. McCarthy Chapter 2: Counter Culture and
Drug Use: Civil Rights, Political Activism and the Proliferation of
Marijuana Consumption Chapter 3: Fighting Counter Culture and Building
Conservative Political Clout: Marijuana as the "Gateway" Scapegoat Chapter
4: The Escalating Costs of Fighting the War on Drugs from the 1990s to
Today: Markets, Governments, and Drug Barons Chapter 5: The Addiction
Question: Is Marijuana Addictive or Not? Chapter 6: Decriminalization: The
Beginning of New Political Entrepreneurship Chapter 7: Policy Diffusion in
Action: Actors and Factors that Fuel Marijuana Reform Nikolay Anguelov and
Michael P. McCarthy Chapter 8: Who is For What? A Data Analysis of Expected
Benefits from Cannabis Reform Chapter 9: The Future: Expected Benefits,
Born Costs and Unintended Consequences References