The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West by Diana L. Ahmad

The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West

Diana L. Ahmad

132 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

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America's current "war on drugs" is not the nation's first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, on...

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