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Chinese workers traveled to America for jobs in the California gold fields and on the railroads, and they brought opium smoking with them.
Homers "Odyssey" mentions opium and its believed healing abilities.
Anxiety surrounding opium was part of the reason for the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, which halted Chinese immigration.

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