S obzirom da bi dope bio legalan, bio bi jeftiniji i cistiji. Stoga manje izdataka, manja potreba za parama. Bilo je pokusaja u Engleskoj da se tako nesto ucini. Rezultat je bio smanjenje stope kriminaliteta na nekih 2% pocetnih brojki. Ali iz nekog razloga takva istrazivanja se retko objavljuju u medijima....
UPDATE
Up to 80% of certain crime types, such as shoplifting and burglary, are thought to be drug related. Visibility of drug-related activity is also known to be an additional driver of fear. A key point to understand is that the best drug strategy depends on the maturity of the drug market in question. When a new drug enters the "market", it can be very effective to criminalise it and police it aggressively. However, once a drug has been around and in use for decades, criminal justice sanctions become much less effective, such as with addicts who have been on heroin for 20 years (or alcohol, in the case of the US prohibition).
At this point, a better strategy is to focus efforts on managing the harms. This may involve "legalising", or medicalising, the supply of long-established drugs to chronic users to undermine the criminal suppliers and to stop the person needing to steal or prostitute themselves to pay for the habit. International evidence suggests that such approaches can reduce associated crime by up to 60%.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/poli.../2010/mar/15/drugspolicy-drugs
[Ovu poruku je menjao Igor Gajic dana 21.02.2012. u 18:11 GMT+1]