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California’s early Sikh immigrants and the beginnings of the drug war

December 2, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Via Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Beast, we learn that those opposed to the emerging and growing use of marijuana at the turn of the 20th century in America used the Sikh immigrants to California in 1910 as their earliest scapegoats: In a remarkable letter to [architect of US narcotics policy Hamilton Wright], dated July 2, 1911, [California Board of Pharmacy member Henry Finger] urged that the Conference take up the cannabis issue: “Within the last year we in California […]

Categories: News Bits • Tags: Immigration, marijuana, Sikh diaspora

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