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The 1887 California Scientific Temperance Instruction Law mandated every public school in California to introduce a mandatory daily lesson on “scientific temperance” that explained the harms of narcotics and alcohol. The American Civil War officially ended in 1866. The moral issues surrounding slavery and racial discrimination had taken the steam out of temperance advocacy as a moral and cultural…
The statute’s official title is “An Act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be known as section three hundred and seven, relating to opium smoking.” I will refer to it as Section 307 of the California Penal Code (1881), or Section 307 for short on this page. Broadly, it expanded an 1875 local ordinance in San Francisco that outlawed opium smoking and opium dens with the intention of giving…
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The 1887 California Scientific Temperance Instruction Law mandated every public school in California to introduce a mandatory daily lesson on “scientific temperance” that explained the harms of narcotics and alcohol. The American Civil War officially ended in 1866. The moral issues surrounding slavery and racial discrimination had taken the steam out of temperance advocacy as a moral and cultural…
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The statute’s official title is “An Act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be known as section three hundred and seven, relating to opium smoking.” I will refer to it as Section 307 of the California Penal Code (1881), or Section 307 for short on this page. Broadly, it expanded an 1875 local ordinance in San Francisco that outlawed opium smoking and opium dens with the intention of giving…