Drug Policy and Racism: When it Comes to the War on Drugs, Abolition is the Only Option: End the War on Black Communities

Background document

Source : Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC)

Published: 2021

For those of us involved in research, scholarship, or advocacy around the criminalization of drugs in Canada, the racial reckoning and expanding support for building abolitionist futures have made it clear: to end the racial harms endemic to policing in this society, we must abolish the war on drugs.

Author: Robyn Maynard, recipient of the SSHRC Talent Award; Vanier scholar; and author, Policing Black Lives: State violence in Canada from slavery to the present.

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Link

Topic(s):

Determinants of health
Anti-racism
Health promotion
Decriminalization

Region:

National

Language:

English

Drug Policy and Racism: When it Comes to the War on Drugs, Abolition is the Only Option: End the War on Black Communities

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Drug Policy and Racism: When it Comes to the War on Drugs, Abolition is the Only Option: End the War on Black Communities

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