The War on Drugs

http://lawlib.wlu.edu/CLJC/index.aspx?mainid=1263&issuedate=2010-09-13&homepage=no

p.490-505

The links dont seem to work.

congratulations is in order if I have guessed correctly

Try
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1881570&show=html

Nope. You're on some class one there bro'.

can see the listing and abstract only

The aim of this paper is to identify a way by which the concepts of effects-based operations (EBO), an approach to problem solving derived from military thought, might be applied usefully to a law enforcement problem, namely methamphetamine in New Zealand.

I suppose congrats are in order for getting published.

please to be editing your linkedin profile

"I worked full time at Vero until the middle of 2004, then moved into a casual role that fit around my PhD work."

fitted please - we are not American

Weird.... I could see full version (no logging in or anything)
Odd idea, but try disabling javascript and seeing what happens!

the issue seesm to be with prohibition and not the meth. decriminalising it would be a start. i think the whole fact it is a ptoblem is way blown out of proportion though. its very political.

Yeah youre right all the violence is a by product of its illegality. P is probably the drug which is the least likely candidate for decriminalisation.

I'd suggest its the prime candidate for legalisation (not de-criminalisation) - that way the state can control the drug, currently it has no control and has shown no means to actually reduce the availability nor demand - a fail

of course legalise everything and P would only be the drug of choice by seriously fucked up people - they need help

Theres very little benefit to govt control of P. For things like heroin where a lot of the harm is in the lifestyle the users lead then it makes sense. P is just harmful in itself and overdose is not really a factor. However I dont know where you imagine that they havent had an effect on it. Prices are up, availability is down, use of it is down significantly.

I would support decriminalisation of weed and maybe even govt supply. Its not like we would get the same drug tourists that have been such a problem for holland... though maybe we dont want more hippies immigrating to the country :p

drug tourism can be curtailed if one was to adopt the swiss solution - only legal/decriminalised for residents

I'd suggest the lifestyle of a P addict is vastly more harmful than heroin - P makes people actually mental and aggressively so... Heroin only makes them desperate for more (its a supply/access money problem)

Govt control allows control of purity, supply and revenue.. if cocaine or E was legal for example who'd buy P? Only fools and horses (actually horse do K)

Policing of P has had little impact I'd suggest on the market, if usage is down I'd suggest its the natural bell curve effect - ie people have dropped out, moved on and the younger generation aren't so innocent to its effects as say when first introduced here and most people didn't know shit about how evil it is

Police and govt will claim victories and their influence on price/availability but they also routinely say they're winning the war on drugs - its them smoking too much I'd say

If the price was going down then you would be right, and im sure we are reaching a bit of a natural dip in demand. But even reading through the PR it seems the police customs and the courts are actually making a significant dent in p.

No problem with the govt supplying E (or a substitute) and maybe even weed (though its too easy for people to grow their own it wouldnt be an easy supply monopoly. I dont think the govt should supply meth acid and a variety of the other hard fringe drugs.