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The Menace Of Morphine, Heroin and Cocaine, 1923. This advertisement heralds an early example of educative literature on the subject of drugs, aimed at a wide audience including parents and teachers. Perhaps unsurprisingly the authors and contributors to this article come from both enforcement and religious backgrounds, including Rabbi Martin Meyer (a member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, 1911-1920). Rabbi Meyer was also a member of the Human Betterment Foundation which supported, amongst other agendas, Eugenics. Eugenics was 'a cultural vehicle for expressing anxiety about the "degeneration" of middle-class "Aryans," perceived as resulting from a declining birthrate and, in the words of a leading California eugenicist, the "evil of crossbreeding."' As Sacramento banker Charles M. Goethe, a founder and sponsor of the Eugenics Society of Northern California and Pasadena's Human Betterment Foundation, noted in 1929, the Mexican is "eugenically as low-powered as the Negro. … He not only does not understand health rules: being a superstitious savage, he resists them." Goethe -- for whom a public park on the Sacramento State University campus is named -- tirelessly campaigned to restrict Latin American immigration and to increase sterilization of the "socially unfit." Amongst the many moral panics expounded during this era, was fear of increasing immigration of Mexican people into the united states. In much the same way as the death of Billie Carleton gave voice to Edwardian societies fears of female emancipation, marijuhana became a vehicle for American white society to express their fears about the patriation of Mexicans from across the borders. |
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