California's War on Drugs a 100-Year-Old Bust

"In 1907, the law was quietly amended without any press coverage or public debate -- or any discussion of possible adverse effects. As soon as the law took effect, the board began a high-profile enforcement campaign, dispatching its agents from city to city, investigating and busting offending pharmacists, raiding opium dens, and publicizing their arrests in the newspapers." California has always been "progressive."