SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Political Suicide, Western Australia, Drug Policy
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Really show that you ccan connect the ideas and concepts talked about in calss. Go over the readings, review some of the notes. Last week: drug policy in canada and u. s. Conflict among groups and different classes in different society. this weeks lecture look at drug policies around the world. How can politicians impact the devience, struct norms. Whereas for years and years marijuana was associated with mexican, drug was linked to mexicans that was fact that it droved to be criminalized in the first place. 70"s the large more white youth middle class youth were drawn into it. resulted in many arrested people that did not fit the devience. Did not happen on national level, at the state level, there were individual states that decriminalized marijuana. In the u. s. less people were using drugs and tolerence is going down,