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Issues in Economics Today
Issues in Economics Today
Robert Guell, Indiana State University

Drugs and Prostitution

Web-Based Issues Questions

Question 17.1

Click on this article

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dcf/duc.htm

Peruse the statistics with regard to drug-related crime contained in this report. Do these data support the contention that drugs have externalities that justify their prohibition or the contention that if drugs were legalized drug-related violence would actually decline?

Question 17.2

Click on this article

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa121es.html

This article is written from a distinctly conservative and market oriented think-tank’s perspective. Does the conclusion surprise you? Does the author make the case the drug legalization would reduce drug-related crime?





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