Drugs, Drug Policy & Crime:
100 Years of Asinine Law
(endnotes)
by Craig Jones

  1. “Politics and the English Language” (1946).
  2. Elizabeth Comack, “The Origins of Canadian Drug Legislation: Labelling vs Class Analysis,” in Thomas Fleming, Ed., The New Criminologies in Canada: Crime, State and Control (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 65–86.
  3. Quoted in Shirley J. Cook, “Canadian Narcotics Legislation, 1908–1932: A Conflict Model Interpretation,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 6:1 (1969), p. 43. See also Elizabeth Comack, “The Origins of Canadian Drug Legislation: Labelling vs Class Analysis,” in Thomas Fleming, Ed., The New Criminologies in Canada: Crime, State and Control (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1985), pp. 65–86.
  4. Emily Murphy, The Black Candle (Toronto: 1922), p. 186–89.
  5. Daniel Malleck, “Refining Poison, Defining Power: Medical Authority and the Creation of Canadian Drug Prohibition Laws, 1800–1908,” (PhD Dissertation, Department of History, Queen’s University, 1998).
  6. House of Commons Debates, 1910–1911: p. 399.
  7. P.J. Giffen, S. Endicott, S. Lambert, Panic and Indifference: the Politics of Canada’s Drug Laws: A study in the Sociology of Law. (Ottawa: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse; 1991).
  8. The Ministers of Health, Public Safety and Justice. The exact wording has appeared in a couple of different media outlets, giving rise to the likelihood that it’s a form letter.
  9. “Cannabis: Our Position for a Canadian Public Policy,” Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, Chair, September 2002 and “Cannabis: A Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs,” Gerald Le Dain, Commission Chair (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1972).
  10. From the PM’s introductory remarks to the National Anti-Drug Strategy, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 4 Oct 2007.
  11. Post hoc ergo prompter hoc — Latin for “after this, therefore because of this” expresses the confusion of correlation with causation.
  12. Anthony Doob and Cheryl Marie Webster, “Sentence Severity and Crime: Accepting the Null Hypothesis,” in Michael Tonry, Ed., Crime and Justice (University of Chicago Press, 2003), pp. 143–95. The authors concede that although this conclusion has been apparent for some years, researchers have been reluctant to state it openly.
  13. Lynne Vieraitis, Tomislav Kovandzic and Thomas Marvell, “The Criminogenic Effects of Imprisonment: Evidence from State Panel Data, 1974–2002,” Crime and Public Policy, 6:3 (2007), pp. 589–622.
  14. Alan M. Dershowitz, “Controlling the Cops; Accomplices To Perjury,” The New York Times Online, May 2, 1994 accessed on 24 January 2008.
  15. See the illuminating essay by former drug cop Gil Puder at
  16. See the PBS Frontline documentary “L.A.P.D. Blues,”.
  17. Richard Davenport-Hines, The Pursuit of Oblivion (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2001).
  18. I am referring to the discovery – within the last 20 years – that the tobacco companies have been adding addictive nicotine to the raw product in order to ‘hook’ their customers. Though they publicly denied it, their internal documents belied them. See Glantz, Stanton A., John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes, editors The Cigarette Papers. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.