LSJ 376 Lecture 15: Drug Law Enforcement - Controversies & Debates

• School: UW
• Department: Law, Societies, and Justice
• Course: LSJ 376
• Professor: Beckett Katherine

Document Summary

Lesson fifteen | drug law enforcement: controversies & Discussed the political origins of the war on drugs and some of the main policy commitments that it has entailed. Also discuss key controversies and its role in the emergence of mass incarceration. Reviewed slides showing that price has gone down and purity has gone up for cocaine and heroin (same is true for pot) Will now turn to other evidence of efficacy (cid:8226) (cid:8226) (cid:8226) (cid:8226) (cid:8226) (cid:8226) (cid:8226) (cid:9675) (cid:9675) (cid:9675) (cid:9675) (cid:9675) Drug laws have a successful track record of suppressing illicit drug use since they were introduced 100 years ago. It"s not drug use we should be worried about, it"s abuse. There"s fluctuations regarding illegal drugs, but it was generally increasing. Felons harder to reintegrate with society since they now have a criminal record. Any benefits must be weighed against drug war costs (cid:9675) Money spent on drug war could be spent somewhere else.