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100			_aSeddon, Toby _921242
245			_aMarekets, regulation and drug law reform: Towards a constitutive approach
260			_aSocial and Legal Studies: An International Journal
300			_a29(3), Jun, 2020: p. 313-333
520			_aAfter a century of international drug prohibition, and amidst growing consensus that it has been a costly policy failure, arguments for drug law reform are gathering momentum globally. Despite a large body of empirically oriented policy research, the area remains underdeveloped conceptually and theoretically. This article seeks to address this gap by assembling some intellectual resources for a critical socio-legal analysis of drug law reform, drawing on insights from regulation studies, economics, political economy and economic sociology. Reframing the problem as one of market regulation, and using Shearing’s constitutive approach, opens up some new ways of thinking about how drug laws function and the possibilities for reform. It also highlights the importance of taking normative thinking about drug policy futures seriously. In conclusion, it is suggested that a new concept of exchange space may be key to further theoretical development in this field. – Reproduced
650			_aDrugs, economics, governance, markets, political economy, regulation _919410
773			_aSocial and Legal Studies: An International Journal
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