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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Drug policy in the Americas. Boulder : Westview Press, 1992 (OCoLC)647536163 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter H Smith |
| ISBN: | 0813382394 9780813382395 0813382408 9780813382401 |
| OCLC Number: | 25787121 |
| Notes: | Result of a series of workshops held at the University of California, San Diego in 1990-1991 under the auspices of the Project on Hemispheric Cooperation for the Prevention of Drug Abuse and Traffic. |
| Description: | x, 366 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The political economy of drugs : conceptual issues and policy options / Peter H. Smith -- Patterns in U.S. drug abuse and response / David F. Musto -- Drug abuse in Latin America / Maria Elena Medina-Mora and María del Carmen Mariño -- The economic impact of narcotics in Colombia / Francisco E. Thoumi-- Coca production in Peru / Elena Alvarez -- Coca production in Bolivia / Flavio Machicado -- The power of coca producers / José Guillermo Justiniano -- The Colombians cartels and how to stop them / Guy Gugliotta -- Myths of militarization : enlisting armed forces in the war on drugs / Bruce M. Bagley -- Mexico's permanent campaign : costs, benefits, implications / Miguel Ruiz-Cabañas I. -- After the borders are sealed : can domestic sources substitute for imported drugs? / Peter Reuter -- Against the odds : therapeutic community approaches to underclass drug abuse / Rod Mullen and Naya Arbiter. Community mobilization and human technology skills / Michael C. Hoffmann -- Drug abuse prevention in Latin America / Roberto Lerner -- Policies and prospects for demand reduction / Mathea Falco -- Taxes, regulations, and prohibitions : reformulating the legalization debate / Mark A.R. Kleiman and Aaron Saiger -- Foundations for international cooperation / Lisa L. Martin -- International collaboration in historical perspective / William O. Walker III -- The United Nations and the global drug control regime / Jack Donnelly -- The organization of American states and control of dangerous drugs / Abraham F. Lowenthal -- Unilateralism and bilateralism / María Celia Toro -- The logic of inter-American cooperation on drugs / David R. Mares. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Peter H. Smith. |
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- Drug control -- Latin America.
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- Drug traffic -- Latin America.
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- South America
- United States
- Central America
- Narcóticos, Control de -- Cooperación internacional
- Narcotráfico -- Hispanoamérica
- Drogue, Lutte contre la -- Amérique latine.
- Drogue, Lutte contre la -- Coopération internationale.
- Drogues -- Trafic -- Amérique latine.
- Drugsbeleid.
- Drogenpolitik
- Drogenhandel
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- Amerika
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