Carstairs C
Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.
Can Bull Med Hist. 1999;16(1):65-88. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.16.1.65.
This article argues that a Vancouver anti-drug campaign was critical to the extension of Canada's drug laws in the early 1920s. The highly racialized drug panic resulted in extraordinarily severe drug legislation including six-month sentences for possession. This had particularly devastating effects on Chinese-Canadians who were targeted by enforcement officials and faced the possibility of deportation. However, the drug panic also affected drug users of all backgrounds who for long afterwards faced lengthy sentences for possession as well as civil liberties violations such as extraordinary search legislation and restrictions on the right to an appeal.
本文认为，20世纪20年代初温哥华的一场反毒品运动对于加拿大毒品法律的扩展至关重要。高度种族化的毒品恐慌导致了极其严厉的毒品立法，包括对持有毒品判处六个月监禁。这对加拿大华裔产生了特别毁灭性的影响，他们成为执法官员的目标，面临被驱逐出境的可能性。然而，毒品恐慌也影响了所有背景的吸毒者，在很长一段时间里，他们因持有毒品面临长期监禁，以及诸如特别搜查立法和上诉权限制等公民自由受到侵犯的情况。
