North Americans' Attitudes Toward Illegal Drugs

Millhorn, Misty; Monaghan, Megan; Montero, Darrel; Reyes, Maria A.; Roman, Tony; Tollasken, Roy; Walls, Becca

doi:10.1080/10911350802687075

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“…This finding is new but consistent with Goode's analysis. It is also consistent with some previous studies about people's perception of drug policies (e.g., Millhorn et al 2009;Costes et al 2010) showing that at least some people adopt this view. More than the other participants, free trade libertarians declared themselves as non-religious and as not having completed primary education.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…This was consistent with Goode's characterization of the progressive prohibitionist view as based, above all, on public health considerations. This finding was also consistent with results from previous studies showing that a substantial percentage of people tended to support needles and syringes programs (Hoffmann et al 2000;Treloar and Fraser (2007), methadone maintenance treatment (Costes et al 2010;Hopwood et al 2010), medically supervised injecting centers (Hopwood et al 2010), pharmacy supply of injecting equipment (Hopwood et al 2010), and information campaigns on drugs (Costes et al 2010), and adopted more punitive states of mind regarding heroine than regarding cannabis (Millhorn et al 2009;Treloar and Fraser 2007); these attitudes can be considered as compatible with the progressive prohibitionist view. In Colombia as in most other countries, a model of regulating health-endangering drugs is already in place; that is, the production and distribution of alcohol and tobacco are regulated by the State.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 89%

“…Fifty percent of their non-White sample considered that ''marijuana should be legalized.' ' Millhorn et al (2009) reviewed findings from surveys conducted in Canada and the USA. A huge majority of their representative samples was unfavorable to the legalization of marijuana, but slightly more than half of their samples agreed with the view that the possession of small amounts of cannabis should not be treated as a crime.…”

Section: The Radical Constructionists' Positionmentioning

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Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market: A Mapping of Colombian People’s Perspectives Regarding National Drug Policies

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Colombian laypersons' perspectives regarding actual and potential drug policies were examined. Adults (N = 395) aged 18-68 and living in Bogota were presented with 24 vignettes that were composed according to two within-subject orthogonal factor designs: (a) Demand for drugs in the country 9 Current government policy regarding soft and hard drugs (from ''laissez faire'' policy for all drugs to complete prohibition of all drugs) and (b) Information campaigns regarding the dangerousness of drugs 9 Current policy. Participants rated the level of acceptability of each policy. Seven different perspectives were identified that can be grouped into five broad views. The first one (50 % of participants) was called ''radical constructionists'' because participants considered that all policies were unacceptable. The second one (19 %) was called ''cultural conservatives'' because only one drug policy was considered fully acceptable: complete prohibition (although half of the members of this group were willing to allow soft drugs to be sold freely). The third one (14 %) was called ''progressive prohibitionists'' because the preferred policies in this group were either complete prohibition or complete regulation by the government. The fourth one (8 %) was called ''free trade libertarians'' because the dominant opinion was that the drug market should be free. The last one (5 %) was called ''progressive advocates of legalization'' because the preferred policy in this group was complete regulation of all substances. In most cases, the presence of information campaigns was highly valued. Methodological implications and implications for decisionmakers are discussed.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market: A Mapping of Colombian People’s Perspectives Regarding National Drug Policies

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“…Timberlake et al Addictive Substances, Users' Health, and the Government's… (2001, see also Timberlake et al 2003) showed that a majority of US citizens supported increasing public spending on drug rehabilitation. Millhorn et al (2009) synthesized the findings from surveys recently conducted in Canada and the US. They concluded that people in their majority was unfavorable to the legalization of marijuana although they considered that the possession of small amounts of it should not be assimilated to crime, a position that was compatible with the progressive prohibitionists' view.…”

Section: Lay People's Views Regarding Drug Policiesmentioning

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Addictive Substances, Users’ Health, and the Government’s Perceived Responsibility: French People’s Perspective

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This study examined the extent to which people think that the government is directly implicated each time an addictive substance user's health deteriorates. Eighty stories were composed according to a five within-subject orthogonal design: (a) scientific evidence available, (b) time since first concerns with substance dangerousness, (c) personal susceptibility, (d) level of consumption, and (c) current state policy regarding the substance: no information campaign and free market, no information campaign and state monopoly; information campaigns and free market, information campaigns and state monopoly; information campaigns and complete prohibition. Participants (236 adults aged 18-86) were asked to rate, in each case, the level of the government's responsibility. Participants associated user's health and government responsibility: It is only in the case of total prohibition that the government is perceived as relieved from any responsibility. Leftists tend to attribute more responsibility to the government than rightists, and rightists are more sensitive to scientific evidence than leftists. As long as citizens attribute heavy responsibility to the state's government for any health problem encountered by substance users, the government will not have any other choice than to stick to the most conservative policies.

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“…In the U.S., marijuana was first made illegal in 1937 with the passing the Marijuana Tax Act, which restricted and heavily taxed the sale and possession of marijuana (Millhorn, 2009). The Act was written by Harry J. Anslinger, the commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics, as a result of a call from the newspaper industry, citizens, and legislators over inflated concerns about the drug (Inciardi, 2002).…”

Section: History Of Marijuana Legalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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North Americans' Attitudes Toward Illegal Drugs

Cited by 32 publications

References 18 publications

Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market: A Mapping of Colombian People’s Perspectives Regarding National Drug Policies

Prohibition, Regulation or Free Market: A Mapping of Colombian People’s Perspectives Regarding National Drug Policies

Addictive Substances, Users’ Health, and the Government’s Perceived Responsibility: French People’s Perspective

The sources of behavioral reinforcement : an examination of nonsocial reinforcement theory.

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