CRIM 1650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Opium Den, Police Corruption

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 1650
• Professor: James Williams

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2. b) wanted a federal response: drugs were widely available in the form of patent medicines. 6: economic instability, growing suspicion of chinese by the white population. Concerns around where opium was being consumed such as opium dens. Opium dens were dangerous since women were seduced into drug use and prostitution. This was all threatening to the white middle-upper class: marijuana and population- particular users such as mexicans in the us south. In the late 20s and early 30s great depression. People were desperate for work so mexicans were seen as a source of competition. Slide 6: there is no such thing as a mutual moral agreement. Slide 1: the war on drugs carried on until the late 1930s-early 1940s. Richard nixon declares to the public how there is a new enemy: drugs: a) reduce the availability of drugs in canada and us. Spray herbicides on crops to reduce the supply.