This paper will focus on the historical progression of drug laws in Canada, specifically laws surrounding marijuana. The paper will take a social constructionist perspective in how drug laws/polices came to be and how socially constructed definitions of “drug problems” were fueled by a tyranny of the majority and in some cases even racist ideals rather than empirical evidence. An example would be the 1908 Opium Act in Canada. The origins of this act had little to do with the health risks and effects of this illicit drug (marijuana). Rather it was due to a growing fear of the Chinese immigrants and the government’s ability to capitalize on this politically. The work of HERBERT BLUMER and his theory of social problems are fundamentally products of a process of collective definitions must be applied somewhere within the paper as well.

 
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