Busted
Subtitle: an illustrated history of drug prohibition in Canada
By: Susan Boyd
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781552669761
Subjects: Drug control; Drug abuse; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Pictorial works; History
Description: "Busted is a timely short history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to it. Canada's drug prohibition history is unique--shaped by race, class, and gender concerns, and local, national and international events. I argue in the book, that in order to chart future drug policy it is well worth knowing Canada's unique history of drug prohibition. Although the book's main focus is on criminalized drugs, images of alcohol and tobacco are included in order to illuminate how these drugs, although strongly contested at times, remain legal today."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plant Drugs and Colonization: 1800s and Earlier; title: The Beginnings of Narcotic Control: 1880s-1920s; title: Reefer Madness: 1920s-1930s; title: The Criminal Addict and Psychedelics: 1940s-1950s; title: Alcohol Prohibition and Tobacco Regulation; title: The Counterculture Movement: The 1960s and 1970s; title: Resisting the War on Drugs: 1990s-2000s; title: The Movement to Legalize Cannabis: 1980s-2017; title: Where to Now?