CRM 3314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Independent Community And Health Concern
31 Mar 2019
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Decriminalization: reminiscent of prohibition, does not need to extend to sale of drugs, compensation for harms, legal remedies/incentive to make drugs safer, higher prices. Cannabis coffeeshop system: netherlands, 1976, they established a cannabis coffeeshop system and emerged out of an idea that the gate way hypothesis was something that existed and they wanted to interrupt. They decided they were going to allow retailers to sell small quantities to consumers and it"s going to be more effective than criminalizing drugs. If people are engaging in "soft" drugs, they won"t use "hard" drugs and if we"re not encouraging them (). We want to disrupt the potential () that consumers can have - between dealers, other users of hard drugs. If you don"t have the ability to consume these drugs in specific environments then () this is going to be what leads people to try more dangerous things. It was more of an explanation for why they needed this: "gateway hypothesis" as rationale.
