CRM 3314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Purity Movement, Social Hygiene Movement, Compulsory Sterilization
31 Mar 2019
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The global war on drugs and canada"s drug strategies. Canadian identity: attempting to get a canadian (, when we think of the position that canada occupied at the end of the prohibition, early. 20th century, it was an uncertain position, geo-politically. British colony and weren"t a full-fledged country that were able to create our own laws. We were part of the dominion (part of the british common-law), the queen was the head of state. 19th century drug use: people could access a lot of drugs back then that are now prohibited and criminalized. For example, cocaine that has: for example: cocaine toothache drops; metcalf"s coca wine that all claimed to have medicinal properties, readily available, trying to problematized that you"re going to be instanteously addicted and society"s going to. 1908 opium act: the first act enacted in canada federally. People were offering scapegoats the reasons for lo.
