SOC219H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Drug User, Supervised Injection Site, Hepatitis C Virus
Document Summary
Drug and law policy in canada: torn between criminal justice and. These key questions have been amplified by the emergence of hiv and overdose epidemics among illicit drug users starting in the late 1980s. In 1908 (context of socio-economic tensions between chinese immigrants and anglo-saxon population in bc that resulted in violent anti-chinese riots in vancouver) the house of commons passed the. Opium act: a criminal law that prohibited the manufacturing, importation, and sale of opium products in canada. In 1911, the opium act was expanded to prohibit opium possession, criminalizing the medical/cultural uses of this drug. Late 1920s: influenced by the us, the canadian government added other psychoactive drugs (heroin, cocaine, cannabis) to the drug laws (drugs that were mainly seen to be associated with non-white ethnic minorities) Mid 1920s: rcmp assumed main responsibility over drug law enforcement in canada. Over the years, drug law expanded at the federal level under the.
