(en) glasgow anarchists: Glasgow Workshop - Drug policy, new
and old -- health ideals, the production of junkies and why old
fashioned prohibition is still indispensable to the state
Monday 23rd November 2015 6-9pm ---- WestGAP. 365 Paisley Road West, G51 1LX ---- Most
would agree that some people will always take drugs, and some of them will lose control of
their drug use. But in modern capitalist states there is more to drug use and to the ways
the use of some drug is tolerated while the consumption of others is forbidden. ---- Why
is there a drug regime aiming to control what people are doing to themselves by using
"psychoactive" substances in the first place? Why do modern capitalist states keep up this
"old fashioned" prohibition of drugs? Why are there new campaigns (e.g. propaganda for
"resilient" drug-free lifestyles), and how do they fit with the old drug policies? ----
What are the stereotypes of "junkies" and "drug dealers" about? How does propaganda about
drug use relate to the extremely popular contemporary desire of "being in control of one's
life" and "having a healthy body"?
Workshop by members of Critisticuffs, from London and Germany.
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