Public Policy Professor Angela Hawken Coauthors New Book
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Angela Hawken, associate professor of public policy, recently published Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, July 2012) with Jonathan P. Caulkins (Carnegie Mellon),
Beau Kilmer (RAND), and Mark A. R. Kleiman (UCLA) as coauthors.
The book provides a nonpartisan introduction to questions of marijuana legalization,
including the risks and benefits of its use and describing the current laws regulating
the drug in the U.S. and abroad. Hawken and her coauthors discuss the likely costs
and benefits of legalization at the state and national levels and explore policy options
between prohibition and commercialized production, in addition to how marijuana legalization
could personally impact parents, heavy users, medical users, drug traffickers, and
employers.
Thomas Schelling, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, observed, “Here is a book by
four leading experts who collaborate in answering questions about marijuana and its
possible legalization
. . . a remarkable collaboration, and a pioneering format worth emulating.”
Hawken teaches classes in applied research methods, statistics, crime, and social
policy, and her research interests focus on drugs, crime, and corruption. She has
delivered testimonies to
many state legislatures and to the U.S. Congress on issues related to U.S. drug policy.
Learn more about Professor Hawken: publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu