DRUG CONTROL POLICY IN NIGERIA: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS

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2016-04-14

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Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University, Keffi

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There is an ongoing American polity debate on the appropriate legal status for psychoactive drugs. Prohibition, decriminalization, and legalization positions are all premised on assumptions about the behavioral effects of drug laws. Rational-choice models of legal compliance suggest that criminalization reduces use through restricted drug availability, increased drug prices, and the deterrent effect of the risk of punishment. Research on these effects illustrate the need for a more realistic perspective that acknowledges the limitations of human rationality and the importance of moral reasoning and informal social control factors. There are at least 7 different mechanisms by which the law influences drug use, some of which are unintended and counterproductive. This framework is used to explore the potential behavioral effects of decriminalization and legalization, the development of drug control laws, issues on drug law and drug control policy in contemporary Nigeria, and the structure for the proposed National Commission for Narcotic Drug Control

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