caa a22 4500 445294493 CHVBK 20180317142537.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20100301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12117-009-9083-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12117-009-9083-z Thoumi Francisco Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA aut The international drug control regime's straight jacket: are there any policy options? [Elektronische Daten] [Francisco Thoumi] All societies have to control individual behaviors that are considered as socially damaging. The use of mind altering drugs is one such behavior. These controls have always been determined locally but in the 20th Century an international drug control regime was developed that established a globally unified normative control system formulated in the three United Nations drug conventions. The global normative system is based on a prohibitionist paradigm. The international norms are very difficult to change and impose strong restrictions on the ways in which countries may manage addictive mind altering drugs. The essay surveys the development of the international drug control regime, identifies its main characteristics and makes a naïve proposal to manage the consumption of those drugs through an insurance system aimed at minimizing the sum of the social costs generated by drug addiction and anti-drug policies. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2009 Trends in Organized Crime Springer-Verlag 13/1(2010-03-01), 75-86 1084-4791 13:1<75 2010 13 12117 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-009-9083-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-009-9083-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Thoumi Francisco Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Trends in Organized Crime Springer-Verlag 13/1(2010-03-01), 75-86 1084-4791 13:1<75 2010 13 12117 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer