Drug Law Reforms: Strategies and Obstacles

Drug Control: A Mega-Trilemma

The relation between law and society can attract attention for a lot of different reasons, one of them being the question of the effectiveness (and efficiency) of legislation. Legislation does not always fulfil the lawmakers' expectations. The reasons for that may vary. Circumstances may have changed, important variables may have been ignored, sloppy wording may have caused confusion or outright manipulation. Reality is often more complex than what the law and its makers can anticipate.