A paper below argues that the evidence points to the deleterious effects of crack being generated by prohibition related violence rather than drug-use per se. This is something we are eventually going to have debate sensibly in Ireland at some stage. Almost all of our murders, it seems to me, are related to turf-wars around drugs and we have sent billions of euro in to the black market. It is almost impossible though to know what the counter-factual would be if "hard drugs" were made legal in some form. the present situation is frustrating though.
http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/fryer/papers/fhlm_crack_cocaine.pdf
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