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

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

This audio was generated using AI trained on the voice of Katherine Mangu-Ward.

Music credits: "Deep in Thought" by CTRL and "Sunsettling" by Man with Roses

Comments

[Rev Arthur L kuckland]

The best of reason is sullum and ai kmw?

Now your just trolling the readers

[Bill Falcon]

Maybe do an article on the Sasson family Jake. That would be interesting to see how they made billions and become English lords from scum bag traders in Bagdad by destroying millions of Chinese lives and families pushing opium.

[Public Entelectual]

That's Sassoon, Falcune.

[American Mongrel]

The Chinese of course had no agency. Like how it is now the Chinese and Mexicans fault that poor whites are oding on fentanyl. The CIA made blacks smoke crack. And gays have unprotected sex with anything that would bend over. Someone made Indians love booze too much, not sure who though. Purdue pharma and Walgreens did something to someone...

It's always politically convenient to deny that some group of people are just being degenerates. People would never be degenerate on their own.

[American Mongrel]

I guess at least you didn't blame all of the British people collectively.

[Public Entelectual]

The real Drug War I was Salem's drive to beat Boston in exporting Yankee Ginseng in the China Trade.

[American Mongrel]

What was Mao and the communists' reason for their crackdown on opium?