Drug enforcement can be engineered through price rather than prohibition

Evidence

So what -should the attituae be of those who direct law enforcement policy? They will have to ensure that what is called the opening price, that is to say, the price for new consumers, is as high as possible so that price itself is a weapon of dissuasion and small, potential consumers cannot take the step of becoming consumers hecause of the economic threshold. On the. other hand, those whose demand is inelastic and who will pay any price should be given the drug at the best possible price, that is to say, at the lowest possible price, so that, since they will buy the drug anyway, they are not forced to get the moey by any means t buy it-. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1351

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the ‘garner’ / environmental-technology thread Foucault develops in 1361-1366. — connects to: Drug policy targets elastic versus inelastic demand rather than drug types — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1353; Drug war enforcement has coincided with falling rather than rising drug prices — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 1077; Penal policy ignores the criminal psyche and acts on market incentives — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 1357 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Drug war enforcement has coincided with falling rather than rising drug prices #qualifies (0.90) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1077
• Penal policy ignores the criminal psyche and acts on market incentives #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1357
• Proponents argued punitive drug sanctions deter offending and raise drug prices. #contradicts (0.80) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1073
• Punishment deters when its expected cost merely exceeds crime’s benefit #qualifies (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 154
• Certainty of apprehension deters drug crime but severity of punishment does not #qualifies (0.70) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1075