Busted

An Illustrated History of Drug Prohibition in Canada

Susan C Boyd author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Published:1st Mar '18

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Busted cover

Long-listed for the George Ryga Award.


Canada's drug laws are constantly changing. But what does Canada's history of drug prohibition say about its future?


Busted is an illustrated history of Canadian drug prohibition and resistance to that prohibition. Reproducing over 170 archival and contemporary drawings, paintings, photographs, film stills and official documents from the 1700s to the present, Susan Boyd shows how Canada's drug prohibition policies evolved and were shaped by white supremacy, colonization, race, class and gender discrimination. This history demonstrates that prohibition and criminalization produces harm rather than benefits, including the arrest of thousands of Canadians each year for cannabis-related offences, and the current drug overdose crisis. .

Visually engaging and approachably written, Busted is a timely examination of Canada's history of drug control and movements against that control. Susan Boyd argues that in order to chart the future, it is worthwhile for us as Canadians to know our history of prohibition and how it continues to intersects with colonization and race, class, and gender injustice.

ISBN: 9781552669761

Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 1mm

Weight: 510g

169 pages