SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Malum Prohibitum, Sept, Medicalization
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Grass marijuana use is a deep social activity around pleasure, to target marijuana use is to target the body and social situations. Becket people don"t consume horrible circumstance, what happens if this is social activity that is just learned, and adapt to roll it, use it, understand the effects and connect it with sense of pleasure. Marijuana is a mala prohibita offence criminal because the law says it is. Medicalization of marijuana something becomes a medical problem it can be diagnosed, categorized, medicaliyzed in incomplete informal ways. Incomplete example would be depression or eating example, marijuana although medicaliyzed does not follow a medicaliyzed model. Example in grass portrays marijuana that it would make you crazy, it will kill people (causal affect), addict (gateway argument). Medicaliyzed rhetorically and morally that scared people into thinking it was a medical problem. The opium act of 1908 (banned all crude opium, powdered opium, and opium prepared for smoking)
