PSYC 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Indictable Offence, Summary Offence, Prohibition Of Drugs
18 Dec 2016
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Chapter 3 drug products and their regulations. Curre(cid:374)t laws tra(cid:272)e (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to two pie(cid:272)es of legislatio(cid:374) fro(cid:373) the early (cid:1005)9(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s. Racist fears about deviant behaviour, including drug misuse, played a role in the development of drug regulation. Fraud in patent medicines that were sold directly to the public: false therapeutic claims, habit-forming drug content. Cocaine: present in many patent medicines (and, yes, coca-cola, viewed as a cause of increasing crime. 1908: by this, selling opium for non-medical purposes was an indictable offence but did not prohibit possession or use. Narcotic control act of 1961: criminalization of drugs in canada was challenged by emerging public health movement (mds, addicted canadian youth highly punitive act drugs seen as enslaving. The le dain commission 1969: gradual withdrawal of criminalization of illegal drugs and greater leniency for drug possession, possession of cannabis not an offence denied (can youth)
