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I was just perusing my back editions of The Georgia Straight, Vancouver's lone voice that's not controlled by Canwest Global Media. I found a letter to the paper that claims that: "The prohibition of cannabis/hemp/marijuana began with the prohibition of opium, which itself began with the Anti-Asian Riot in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1907.
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