LS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Narcotic Control Act, Summary Offence
4 Dec 2017
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The legislation of morality drug legislation and social policy. The opium act of 1908 was the first piece of legislation to criminalize drug usage. Critics contend that the act was motivated by racism and targeted the west coast asian population, rather than health concerns. Drug legislation resulted from the actions of moral entrepreneurs - Drug legislation from the 1920"s to the present. In 1920, the department of health became responsible for enforcing canadian drug laws. The rcmp allied itself with the narcotic division and became the enforcement arm of the department of health. From 1930 to the 1970"s, drug laws expanded along with increasingly severe. The food and drug act and the narcotics control act were passed in 1961. At first there was little opposition to maximum sentence of life, minimum 7 years. For exporting/importing, as offenders were politically powerless, low class.
