War on Drugs

The Best of Reason: Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War

San Francisco's prohibitionists worried that opium dens were patronized by "young men and women of respectable parentage" as well as "the vicious and the depraved."

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This week's featured article is "Anti-Chinese Xenophobia Fueled America's First Drug War" by Jacob Sullum.

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