Published: October 17, 2018
The Therapeutic Goods Administration’s proposal would put poppers in the same drug category as heroin
In the 1890s, South Australia and Queensland became some of the first jurisdictions in the world to enact laws prohibiting the non-medical use of a particular drug. These laws are the precursors to the modern drug criminalisation regime and would spread across Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the US over the next 20 years.
These laws prohibited the manufacture, sale and use of opium, but, more than that, they specifically targeted Chinese migrants in their wording and application. Officials justified the legislation by appealing to anti-immigrant sentiment and racist stereotypes such as “the sensual Chinaman”.
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