BOOKS - Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada
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972115
972115
Busted: An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada
Author: Susan C Boyd
Year: December 1, 2017
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 21 MB
Language: English
Year: December 1, 2017
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 21 MB
Language: English
Long-listed for the George Ryga Award.Canada's drug laws are constantly changing. But what does Canada's history of drug prohibition say about its future?Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing over 170 archival and contemporary drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills and official documents from the 1700s to the present, Susan Boyd shows how Canada's drug prohibition policies evolved and were shaped by white supremacy, colonization, race, class and gender discrimination. This history demonstrates that prohibition and criminalization produces harm rather than benefits, including the arrest of thousands of Canadians each year for cannabis-related offences, and the current drug overdose crisis. .Visually engaging and approachably written, Busted is a timely examination of Canada's history of drug control and movements against that control. Susan Boyd argues that in order to chart the future, it is worthwhile for us as Canadians to know our history of prohibition and how it continues to intersects with colonization and race, class, and gender injustice.