Dr. E. R. Bloomquist Character Analysis

A keynote speaker at the National District Attorneys’ Conference on Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and “a well known authority on the abuse of dangerous drugs.” Despite his credentials, however, Dr. Bloomquist’s lecture is full of “dangerous gibberish,” and he portrays drug users as violent, sex-crazed maniacs. He is out of touch with the actual “Drug Culture” of 1971 and is focused mainly on psychedelics, while the nation’s drug users have largely moved on to much harsher drugs like heroin. Dr. E. R. Bloomquist represents the ignorance of the American establishment regarding drug use and users, and the tendency of that establishment to unfairly criminalize “the Drug Culture.”