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Illegal drug trafficking is not inherently violent. The horrific surge of violence that began in Mexico in 2006 thus requires some specific explanation.The most common account is that when President Calderon turned the force of the state on to organized...
That is the key conclusion from a recent working paper (pdf, ungated) by Arindrajit Dube (UMass), Oeindrila Dube (NYU) and Omar Garcia Ponce (NYU): Does access to arms promote violent crime? We exploit a natural experiment induced by the 2004 expiration of...
Studying drug policy is no fun if you like things to make sense. But it’s a good way to cultivate an appreciation of the absurd.The United States consumes large amounts of cocaine, cannabis, heroin, and methamphetamine, most of which enters...
Greg Campbell’s comparison of marijuana smokers to buyers of blood diamonds (h/t Andrew Sullivan) is hardly original: the Partnership for a Drug-Free America ran a series of ads on this theme a decade or more ago, one of them showing...
The following post-election report was prepared by Marco A. Morales, a Ph.D candidate in the Department of Politics at New York University. In addition to his graduate work in political science, Morales has also served as a public official under...