Not This Time

Martel, Marcel

doi:10.3138/9781442627949

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“…Political momentum had gathered as a result of sensationalist media accounts of LSD use by youth, and more ambivalent public opinion surrounding cannabis use. 22 The commission conducted hearings in several cities across Canada and attempted to reach youth by holding meetings on more than twenty university campuses. It heard oral testimony and accepted 400 formal briefs from police, criminologists, religious bodies, law professors, physicians, psychologists, public health officials, street-level social agencies, and drug users, among others.…”

Section: Canada Confronts the Drug Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…92 The media and even the RCMP had constructed marijuana use as middle-class deviancy, which threatened the status quo. 93 Yet hallucinogens, the main drugs of hippies and youth influenced by hippies, were not always the focus of the city studies. For practical purposes, the study of Montreal's "amphetamine ecology" was concerned with the transient, cosmopolitan downtown, which contained pockets of university students, the unemployed, the poor, and transients.…”

Section: Drug Skid Row?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s Canada

Marquis¹

2014

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In 1970, youthful researchers carried out participant-observer studies of the drug scene in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax. This ethnographic research, prepared for the federal Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs (the LeDain Commission), was part of the commission’s extensive series of unpublished studies. The commission, which released an initial report in 1970, one on cannabis in 1972 and a final report in 1973, adopted a broad approach to the issue of drugs and society. This article examines the unpublished studies as examples of social science “intelligence gathering” on urban social problems. The reports discussed the local market in illegal drugs, its geographic patterns and organizational features, the demographic characteristics of drug sellers and consumers, the culture of the drug scene, and the attitudes of users. Unlike earlier sociological and anthropological studies that focused on prisoners and lower-class “junkies” or more recent studies that examine marginalized inner-city populations, the city studies reflected the era’s fixation on middle-class youth culture and the addiction-treatment sphere’s growing concern with amphetamine abuse.

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Section: Canada Confronts the Drug Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Drug Skid Row?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s Canada

Marquis¹

2014

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Turning failure into success: what does the case of Western Australia tell us about Canadian cannabis policy-making?

Hyshka

2009

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The privileged normalization of marijuana use – an analysis of Canadian newspaper reporting, 1997–2007

Haines‐Saah

Johnson

Repta

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The objective of this study was to systematically examine predominant themes within mainstream media reporting about marijuana use in Canada. To ascertain the themes present in major Canadian newspaper reports, a sample (N = 1999) of articles published between 1997 and 2007 was analyzed. Drawing from Manning's theory of the symbolic framing of drug use within media, it is argued that a discourse of ‘privileged normalization’ informs portrayals of marijuana use and descriptions of the drug's users. Privileged normalization implies that marijuana use can be acceptable for some people at particular times and places, while its use by those without power and status is routinely vilified and linked to deviant behavior. The privileged normalization of marijuana by the media has important health policy implications in light of continued debate regarding the merits of decriminalization or legalization and the need for public health and harm reduction approaches to illicit drug use.

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Not This Time

Cited by 15 publications

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Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s Canada

Constructing an Urban Drug Ecology in 1970s Canada

Turning failure into success: what does the case of Western Australia tell us about Canadian cannabis policy-making?

The privileged normalization of marijuana use – an analysis of Canadian newspaper reporting, 1997–2007

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