Abstract
Sociology has contributed much to the study of drug use and dependence, as numerous reviews can attest (e.g. Adrian, 2003; Allen, 2007; Bergeron, 2009; Faupel, Horowitz, & Weaver, 2004; Rhodes, 2009; Weinberg, 2011). However, the study of drug policy has often been left to economists, with assistance from operational researchers, public policy specialists, lawyers and psychologists (e.g. Boyum & Reuter, 2005; Caulkins, Tragler, & Wallner, 2009; Donohue, Ewing, & Peloquin, 2011; Kleiman, 2009; MacCoun & Reuter, 2001). As Peter Reuter recently stated, while economics has provided useful contributions to the analysis of the drug trade seen as a market, economists have too often failed to question or verify the – often grand – assumptions that they tend to bring to the study of these markets (Reuter, 2011).
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