| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | Fachveröffentlichungen
Controlled Substances, Controlled People: How Drug Laws Reinforce Colonial Power Structures
Controlled Substances, Controlled People: How Drug Laws Reinforce Colonial Power Structures
Introduction
Drug legislation has never been a neutral or purely scientific matter of public health or criminal justice. Rather, drug laws have long functioned as mechanisms of social control deeply embedded in racialised and colonial systems of domination (Hanson, Venturelli, & Fleckenstein, 2015; King County Bar Association Drug Policy Project, 2005). This essay explores how contemporary drug policies regulating “controlled substances” are rooted in and continue to reproduce colonial power structures (Daniels aet al., 2021). (Drug Science. UK, 02.06.2025)
https://www.drugscience.org.uk/controlled-substances-controlled-people