4.7 Required Course Materials

In addition to the videos and reading links embedded into the chapter, you are required to complete the following course material:

Jensen, E. & Gerber, J. (1993). State efforts to construct a social problem: The 1986 war on drugs in Canada. Canadian Journal of Sociology, 18(4), 453-462. https://doi.org/10.2307/3340900

Owusu-Bempah, A & Luscombe, A. (May 21, 2021). Race, cannabis & the Canadian war on drugs: An examination of cannabis arrest data by race in five cities. International Journal of Drug Policy, 91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102937

Poulos, B. (November 25, 2019). Quebec is wrong to raise its legal cannabis age to 21. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/quebec-is-wrong-to-raise-its-legal-cannabis-age-to-21-127429

Taha, S., Maloney-Hall, B. & Buxton, J. (August 19, 2019). Lessons learned from the opioid crisis across the pillars of the Canadian drugs and substances strategy. Substance Treatment, Prevention & Policy, 14(32). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13011-019-0220-7