Is there any case for legalizing drugs?

What will be an ideal response?


To reduce the consumption of drugs, they can be legalized and taxed. Legalizing and then taxing drugs has the benefit of raising funds for the government that could be used to help educate people about the danger of consuming drugs. However, if very high taxes are necessary to reduce the consumption of illegal drugs to the level of use when they were banned, this will cause buyers and sellers to engage in unreported trade in the black market and avoid the tax through tax evasion.

Economics

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If a firm wants to sell bonds in Tokyo to denominated in U.S. dollars

A) they would be selling a form of Eurobonds. B) they would have to sell the bonds in dollars first. C) the bonds could only be sold if the firm opened a Eurocurrency account first. D) their profits would have to be converted to yen.

Economics

Within a game theory model, if a change in decision-making raises corporation A's profits by $50 and lowers corporation B's profits by $60, the game is a

A) negative-sum game. B) zero-sum game. C) positive-sum game. D) cooperative game.

Economics

Assume the central bank decides to raise the discount rate. Where and how should you begin your analysis when analyzing the chain reaction of economic interactions?

a. Start the analysis in the real credit market with supply of real credit shifting to the right. b. Start the analysis in the real goods market with aggregate demand shifting to the left. c. Start the analysis in the real credit market with demand for real credit shifting to the left. d. Start the analysis in the real credit market with demand for real credit shifting to the right. e. Start the analysis in the real credit market with supply of real credit shifting to the left.

Economics

According to economists who support passive policymaking

A. workers always consider a change in nominal wages to be a change in real wages. B. policies that attempt to exploit the Phillips curve trade-off will eventually become ineffective for reducing unemployment. C. there is no difference between the effect of an anticipated change in aggregate demand and the effect of an unanticipated change in aggregate demand of an identical amount. D. expansionary policies can reduce unemployment without increasing the price level.

Economics