שאלה | Question: What considerations led the Ottoman and Iranian authorities to impose restrictions on drug trade and use?

Question: What considerations led the Ottoman and Iranian authorities to impose restrictions on drug trade and use?

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		Religious motives, motives related to managerial theories resulting from socialism, the idea of liberal "freedom", democratization of drugs, medical and pharmacological considerations.
		Religious motives, motives related to managerial theories resulting from capitalism, the idea of liberal "freedom", democratization of drugs, medical and pharmacological considerations.
		Religious motives, motives related to capitalist theories, the idea of liberal "freedom", the legalization of drugs, medical and pharmacological considerations.
		Secularism, the industrial revolution, urbanization, enlightenment.

xplanation: In the readings, restrictions emerge from a modern, “scientific”/medical framing of drugs alongside political–economic modernity and moral panic in the press as drug use spread beyond marginal spaces (“democratization”). (Reading: Ram, Hashishophobia). Quote: “Similar portrayals … are also provided in period’s Hebrew press.” (Ram, Hashishophobia).