In a message dated 5/8/2007 2:18:35 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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
============= Well, that would have been before my parents birth (early 1900's), but not their's parents. And, I bet it still went on for a bit after the ban. There was a lot of anti-Chinese feeling in California once upon a time. Immigrant influxes to help build railroad lines. Racism, yes. And suspicion of non-English speakers (or those who didn't speak it much). Odd now how California is about as culturally/racially mixed as anywhere in the US. Probably the most. Marnie aka Doe --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
