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Quote from Dan Baum,

The country's first drug ban
explicitly targeted the opium
of "the heathen Chinee."
Cocaine was first banned in the
south to prevent an uprising of
hopped-up "cocainized Negroes."
DAN BAUM
The Nation



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Dan Baum (more quotes by Dan Baum or books by/about Dan Baum)


American journalist, author

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