Les actions répressives sévères rendent-elles les drogues plus chères?

Cette étude montre que peu de preuves conluent que les actions répressives sévères augmentent les prix, et remet en question la valeur des politiques de maintien de l’ordre.

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Although the fact of prohibition itself raises prices far above those likely to pertain in legal markets, there is little evidence that raising the risk of arrest, incarceration or seizure at different levels of the distribution system will raise prices at the targeted level, let alone retail prices. The number of studies available is small; they use a great variety of outcome and input measures and they all face substantial conceptual and empirical problems.

Given the high human and economic costs of stringent enforcement measures, particularly incarceration, the lack of evidence that tougher enforcement raises prices call into question the value, at the margin, of stringent supply-side enforcement policies in high-enforcement nations.

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