UK Britain, Glasgow anarchists Workshop: Drug policy, new and
old - health ideals, the production of junkies and why old
fashioned prohibition is still indispensable to the state
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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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