The Hogwarts Drug Policy

Jul 20, 2009

Posted by: VoodooPadfoot - {WBM}

Bloggers - Aggi

Warning: this blog discusses drug consumption.

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size=”3″>Hello guys, first I would like to apologise for my lapse of attention which concluded in me posting the wrong blog yesterday ’ this is the correct one!

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size=”3″>This is in light of Jamie Waylett’s recent drug charge for possession and growing of cannabis and being just posted the revised drug policy from my school; I have been wondering if any of the characters that befall into my category of blog (i.e. The Marauders and the people at Hogwarts in the 70’s and 80’s) would have taken drugs.

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size=”3″>Being your average British teenager from the 2000’s I cannot believe that the drug consumption at a wizarding school is much different to that of a Muggle one like mine. I question the almost total lack of alcohol consumption in Hogwarts or that of not a single child taking up smoking ’ as far as we know. However we may be able to place this down to Harry remaining rather new to alcohol until the seventh book but I question them being allowed to take trips into a town with two pups and not having anyone comeback intoxicated.

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size=”3″>Personally I see Sirius and James as the sort of teenagers who may have been apprehended on occasions for alcohol consumption on school property, but I am questioning not just the legal drugs but also those which were very prominent in the 70’s in the Muggle world, for example cannabis and heroin. Actually a main reason for me questioning this is if ’ as British law has changed so often over drug policies in the last thirty years ’ is it that the wizarding world just follows the Muggles for their drug policy and allows the Muggle police and courts to take up the drug charges of a wizard as it is a law which affects both worlds.

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size=”3″>Having just stepped out of the 60’s with the policies of free-love and drugs being brought to the fore-front of society, surely such drug consumption would have started to leak into the wizarding world and the 70’s meant the introduction, on a larger scale, of drugs such as heroin with their horrific side-effects ’ would this become such a problem for the wizards as it did for us muggles?

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size=”3″>I question this policy of the Hogwarts staff from a totally Muggle perspective however, with the rising threat of domination by Voldemort in the 70’s, during the Marauder’s education years, perhaps they choose to have a lax policy on purpose to put more emphasis on the education of students against Voldemort, rather than illegal substances.

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size=”3″>Finally, I would like to question why they have no set lessons in general health and this relates to the Marauder era for the sole reason that we know of adults in the wizarding world who smoke ’ e.g. Mundungus Fletcher ’ and it seems not to be socially unacceptable in the way which it is in the Muggle world; do you think the reason for this is that they believe them to be harmless and within their healers’ knowledge to cure the side-effects of drugs?

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size=”3″>This was a slightly off-topic blog, I have to admit, but it was just a question which has been wrangling with me for a while now.

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size=”3″>*Peace Out*

size=”3″>-Aggi, x

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