Jailed for Possession : : Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961 /

Jailed for Possession : : Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961 / / Catherine Carstairs.

As rates of illegal drug use increase, the debates over drug policy heat up. While some believe penalties should be harsher, others advocate complete decriminalisation. Certainly, debate over the 'war on drugs' is not new. In the early 1920s, as the drive for Chinese Exclusion gathered ste...

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Carstairs, Catherine,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2005
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Studies in Gender and History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Drug Panic of the 1920s and the Drive for Chinese Exclusion
  • Chapter 2. 'Hop Heads': The Effects of Criminalization, 1920-1945
  • Chapter 3. 'Hypes': Using and Quitting, 1945-1961
  • Chapter 4. 'After a Short Struggle': Police Officers and Drug Users
  • Chapter 5. Proscribing Prescribing: Doctors, Drug Users, and the Division of Narcotic Control
  • Chapter 6. Turning Rounders into Square Johns: Drug Users and the John Howard Society
  • Chapter 7. Free Drugs or Prison for Life? Changing Approaches to Treatment
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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