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Would Harassing Drug Users Work?

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Lee, Li Way
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When harassed users adopt new ways of transaction, supply changes in predictable ways. This linkage between demand and supply can explain a number of puzzling consequences of the decriminalization of marijuana and the war on heroin and cocaine. Copyright 1993 by University of Chicago Press.

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Volume (Year): 101 (1993)
Issue (Month): 5 (October)
Pages: 939-59
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