... will be addressed throughout this report. Joel Stein, who writes for Time magazine, did an article entitled, "Is America Going To Pot?- informing that there is new politics of pot. The handout states why there is so much controversy over if marijuana can go legit, and how the people who brought us ... on the eyeball, about 25%, but the drug isn't always practical as a glaucoma treatment. Many who have the disease are elderly and can't tolerate pot's tendency to raise heart rates. With Spasticity (muscle spasms) Marijuana can help people with this and with tremor due to multiple sclerosis...

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... and those who migrated were said to have "The Fever". "The Fever" was the thirst for gold and prosperity. It was also the determination to get to California just to have the opportunity. It was "the fever" that affected California demographically. After the announcement of gold had been confirmed, over 40,000 prospectors came to California within the first two years. It was ... America. It seemed as if the whole world was represented from: "Chinamen, Malays, Mexicans, French, Germans, Sandwich Islands, and Chillians". San Francisco and the mining towns became one big melting pot of nati...

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... man in Canton wrote to his brother in Boston saying, "good many Americans speak of California, Oh! Very rich country! O hear good many Americans and Europeans go there very much. I think I shall go to California next summer." (From Gold Rush) Stories like these built up this dream of the "Golden Mountain". The plan for most Chinese was to make their fortune, and return ... be a commercial and agricultural center, it became America's gateway to Asia. (From Gold Rush) With the large fertile lands of California, workers were needed to help reap the profits that would flow in. In 1833, the ...

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