Fleeing Drug Violence, Mexicans Pour Into U.S. By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
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In addition to the above article…sorry for the cliché, but George really is one of the nicest guys you’d want to know. A throw-back to the hippie generation with long blond locks and matching trim beard. Soft spoken, educated without a lot of formal schooling, and friendly to a fault…too trusting in fact. His “crime”? Cultivating and selling marijuana. But it didn’t start with George…
Drug Victims...
One of the first marijuana prohibition laws in the United States was enacted in 1903 in Brownsville, Texas. It pertained at the time exclusively to Mexicans. The troubles south of the border were apparently causing many Mexicans to escape the growing hostilities by crossing to the U.S. more…
