{"id":2031,"date":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2012\/01\/12\/the-legalisation-of-drugs-the-case-for-socio-cultural-relativism\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-legalisation-of-drugs-the-case-for-socio-cultural-relativism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2012\/01\/12\/the-legalisation-of-drugs-the-case-for-socio-cultural-relativism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legalisation of Drugs: The Case for Socio-Cultural Relativism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aims<br \/>\n&#8211; To outline the key philosophical, social and legal theories which are integral to the debate about the legalisation of drugs. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To consider some of the most salient and persuasive cases for the legalisation of drugs, including:<br \/>\no Medicinal cannabis use<br \/>\no Spiritual or religious drug use <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; To make recommendations for changes to the extant legal and social policies with regard to certain types of illegal drug use.       <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our societies, the systems of punishment are to be situated in a certain \u2018political economy\u2019 of the body [\u2026] it is always the body that is at issue \u2013 the body and its forces, their utility and docility, their distribution and their submission.\u201d (Foucault)  <\/p>\n<p>The War on Drugs    <\/p>\n<p>Key Thinkers<br \/>\n&#8211; John Stuart Mill, On Liberty<br \/>\n&#8211; Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Tomlinson, 2012, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,22,128],"tags":[149,87,113],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-592","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-drugs","tag-health","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}