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Prohibition and legalisation: what the evidence shows
Five articles that judge prohibition and its alternatives against their own stated aims — use, potency, markets, criminal justice and health — across the UK, the US, Canada, Uruguay, Portugal, the Netherlands and Germany.
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Prohibition and legalisation: what the evidence shows
Five articles that judge prohibition and its alternatives against their own stated aims — use, potency, markets, criminal justice and health — across the UK, the US, Canada, Uruguay, Portugal, the Netherlands and Germany.
01/05 21 min readLegal, illegal and everything in between: how to judge cannabis policyWhy 'legal or illegal' hides the real choices in cannabis policy, how to weigh the evidence fairly, and how a century of prohibition came about.Read 02/05 22 min readProhibition on its own terms: use, potency, markets and who paid the priceJudged against its own aims, what did criminal prohibition of cannabis achieve? Use, potency, illicit markets, unequal enforcement and research, weighed fairly.Read 03/05 22 min readDecriminalise, tolerate or regulate without profit: the Netherlands, Portugal, Uruguay and GermanyFour countries that reformed cannabis policy without building a for-profit industry: what the evidence shows about use, crime and supply, and where each model fell short.Read 04/05 22 min readSelling it legally: the United States, Canada, and the UK's medical-only routeWhat commercial cannabis markets in the US and Canada changed for teenagers, adults and young children, and how the UK's medical-only reform has worked in practice.Read 05/05 22 min readHealth, harm and the design of a market: what the evidence asks of policyThe series finale: what research shows on psychosis, dependence, children and medicine, how cannabis markets can be regulated, and what the review concludes for policy.Read