HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture 14: Lecture 14 - Narcotics - Racialization and Spatialization (Mar 6)
11 Feb 2019
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Introduction: drugs not classified according to chemical properties or effects (e. g. addictiveness ); social conditions key, whether a drug is addictive not an universally objective fact, substances previously seen as helpful or neutral become monstrous once criminalized. Interplay between perception of drugs, those who use them, those who are imagined to use them. Chinese menace : when chinese canadians became successful business owners, opium demonized as, chinese laborers blamed for bringing opium into canada, 1907 anti-asian riots led to an on foreign use of opium, but morphine still permitted. Why: chinese menace lead to change of laws on opium, opium becomes illegal, morphine not associated with the chinese, was something your doctor prescribed, 1920s moral panic, chinese blamed for destroying young people via drugs. It is undermining our boyhood and cutting away the moral fibre of our girls. It is turning our people into criminals and imbeciles (grayson)
