[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 5/8/2007 12:50:30 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> The banning of Marijuana is at least indirectly related to racism (it >> was seen as a 'Negro Vice' in the first half of the 20th century). >> >> Some are still legal from prescription sources (cocaine is used >> occasionally for medicine, Morphine is actually made from opium). >> >> -Adam >> >> >> >> > I read somewhere (can't remember where right now) that drug laws in the > US actually got their start in California as a ban on either opium or > opium dens. The laws were designed to target Chinese immigrants. > > This is a drug law timeline showing a ban on the *smoking* of Opium in San Fransisco and Virginia City in 1869. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/drug_law_timeline.htm
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