שאלה | Question: What were the considerations that led the states in the 19th century to restrict trade and the use of drugs?

Question: What were the considerations that led the states in the 19th century to restrict trade and the use of drugs?

שאלה #193465

		A) Moral considerations – opposition from religious groups, arguing that mind-altering substances prevent connection with God
		B) Capitalist considerations – a need for workers and productive labor, and drugs make workers lazy and inefficient
		C) Ethnic and racial considerations – fear that “foreign” and “dangerous” migrants would bring drugs with them, and the wish to limit drug use
		D) All answers are correct

Explanation: The lectures present 19th-century drug regulation as driven by a combination of (1) moral/religious reform movements, (2) capitalist/productivity and labor-discipline concerns, and (3) racialized/ethnicized fears linking drugs to “foreign” populations and migration—so A–C operate together. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; reinforced in Wright, Not Just a “Place for the Smoking of Opium” and Ram, Hashishophobia.)