Hallucinations: Behavior, Experience, and Theory
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<p>In <i>Hallucinations: Behavior, Experience, and Theory</i>, West and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_K.Siegel" title="Ronald K. Siegel">Ronald K. Siegel</a> explain how <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition%28drugs%29" title="Prohibition (drugs)" class="mw-redirect">drug prohibition</a> can be used for selective social control:</p>
 
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<td valign="top" >The role of drugs in the exercise of political control is also coming under increasing discussion. Control can be through prohibition or supply. The total or even partial prohibition of drugs gives the government considerable leverage for other types of control. An example would be the selective application of drug laws… against selected components of the population such as members of certain minority groups or political organizations<sup id="cite_ref-Hallucinations_4-0" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jolyon_West#cite_note-Hallucinations-4">[5]</a></sup></td>
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