RESEARCH GOALS:

• Predict the outcome of the war on drugs if the foundation of its aims is amended
• Research Richard Nixon’s decision making before declaring the War on Drugs
• Manifest functions
• Latent functions
• Apply micro-level analysis of illicit markets to a macro-level understanding of societal behavior
• Understand market structure for drug trade
• Understand cost structure and profit concentration
• Policy: from local to global level
• Consequences: from individual to global level
• Individual experience at different stages of production: coca farming > refinement > trafficking > dealing