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Audrey Redford

Assistant Professor

Western Carolina University

Audrey Redford is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Economics, Management, & Project Management in the College of Business at Western Carolina University.
Redford received her Ph.D. in Agricultural & Applied Economics at Texas Tech University in May 2016.

Blog Posts

If you support legalizing weed, you should also support legalizing crack

November 2, 2016
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War on Drugs

This Election Day, eight states have marijuana legalization and decriminalization referenda on their ballots, making it very possible that the number of states in which the recreational consumption of marijuana is legal could double after November 8th. This development has, in some respects, normalized the conversation surrounding the use of “soft drugs” like cannabis and mescaline. But…why stop there? What about decriminalizing and legalizing hard drugs like crack, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, etc.? Whenever I ask this question, I am inevitably met with blank, incredulous stares. Sometimes