Narcotics control: The permeating aspects of the Narcotic Trade and how history and current policy have affected Canada’s ability to regulate illegal Narcotics

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

9 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/26/2009

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction
A study of the Canadian governments control over narcotic use
1. Indications of guidelines and their latter enforcement
2. Citizen participation in the passing and implementation of narcotic regulation
3. The need for sentencing
4. The targeting of the Chinese more than any other ethnic group
Canadian critics of drug use
The problem of prescription use
The growth (or creation) of narcotics
Increase in the knowledge about narcotics, non-medical abuse of these substances and control measures
United States' acknowledgement that its people could fall victim to a potentially devastating drug problem
1. Inadequate focus on treatment
2. Exercising a necessary ability to exert protectionism on behalf of the general population
3. United States' struggle to deal with its own legal response to a raging drug problem
4. Modern American schools of thought
Contemporary control over narcotics as part of the global war on drugs
Works cited

Abstract

In 1961 the Canadian government passed the narcotic control Act. This was canada's first governmental acknowledgement of a need for federal drug control. Repealed in 1996, the initial act was replaced with the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Detailed and specific, the latter act stipulated definitions for controlled substances, meticulously developed a categorizing system of eight classes and two precursors, which would denote an illegal drug. control of narcotics in canada has garnered national attention for as long as these substances have been available to Canadians. Limitations on the sale, usage and movement of these products to different handlers are not merely a question of government action over the drug, but also over its production and distribution. narcotic control in North American, therefore, cannot be limited to legislative or social jurisdiction merely within the continent. This is a global issue, one that reaches all socio-economic groups and one that must be controlled across each stage from growth to usage.