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>> and he says people were happy in the horse stalls because they were renovated a and modernized. and when it rained there was mud in you have to find pieces of lumber to get into your small. -- install. but if you read the general's book you will find we had medical care. >> at the racetrack suddenly was a community of 17,000 persons. the army provided housing
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i really had to scramble to get my brothers and sisters all packed with what they can carry. what was so great about this whole thing was the matter what happened to our parents was always for the sake of the children. for the sake of the children it didn't matter that they lost everything but they would keep the children safe. >> with the rows and rows of army trucks.
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celebration when you see the green thing popped out of the ground in the middle of the desert. they said nothing will grow here. >> now this picture is a mystery yet to be called -- told the began to unfold within the area above the desert turned agreed and a productive work it will be fully told of the when circumstances permit the o'boyle american citizens to once again enjoy the freedom that we cherished and the disloyal have left the country for good. in the meantime the treatment of people who have loyalties to an enemy nation we are protecting ourselves without violating the principles of christian people.
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change. to just feel this called for the forgiveness that we would take a different look at things. woefully. speeeight mac while of sacramento we talked to the author of we plan to was that the political social and economic dynamics of the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and recreational use. >> for the federal government the last session had six successful vote on
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the floor of the house to rationalize our policies including reining in federal enforcement to open opportunities for legal industrial hemp cultivation. westphal voters in my state like in colorado approved adults use the government is to develop policies that work. the train has left the station. >> in new lives in deep medicinal in recreational world. we do have recreation use but in how they are supposed to be used. in to be extremely sympathetic with those
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debilitating conditions and yet there is a popular culture with other benefits. of how we stand in incredible three decades in the early days of the crisis of seven cisco when by the tens of thousands from hiv then we go to the multibillion-dollar industry and beyond it is a remarkable story if we tell that with texture to focus on people and places in california. i started in a very of likely way by heavily armed
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agents on the santa cruz mountains and this was run by terminally ill patients some were paraplegic and constructed to the of plants here is the da contingent there with the terrorism after 9/11 n. delaware rousted a polio patients from the bed of a nearby house and turn the weapons on a woman who was known as mother teresa of the medical marijuana movement and rested her husband. in the unlikely thing
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happened some of them sobbing or cursing the property of the dea agents and alerted the media to become a national story for days afterwards with the tactics of the government stirred by sympathy with a pass in 2003 is the bill for 20 to serve that name for pot or marijuana they wanted to protect medicinal gardens to guarantee their own right
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and overtime that notion of the collective changes. into see the birth of the industry of the medical marijuana patience but also into recreational use. with the exception of that movement with those the anti-war days of the '60s and even though it was a legal into the aids crisis in san francisco ad of that's came some landmark medical marijuana research with a state of california spent $8.7 million with
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about 300 patients in which they showed widespread cannabis for a whole array of conditions. so remarkable set of studies to cut against the grain of that federal orthodoxy the continues to insist there is no medical value for cannabis. but the studies seem to contradict that. with the financial gains to be made with the additional taxes imposed to have a legalization initiative and
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to get an extra $1 billion in revenues but that didn't work but a similar argument prevailed in colorado and washington so marijuana became the unexpected source of revenue from the government's. >> this book is filled the of the unlikely protagonist. of the initiative proposition 19 he would scale the scaffolding to set up the lighting for aerosmith and l. l. cool j. and he had a catastrophic fall in the warehouse and was paralyzed and turned to cannabis for relief and eventually becomes part of
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the movement and comes to california and eventually the trade school will bankroll this. and dr. abrams the openly gay oncologist at san francisco general hospital. who begins treating young men with swollen glands to them later find out is the first patients of the aids crisis. his own mother dies of the disease did he observes the sugarman survives one support group and another and another in in one of the beating age -- aids practitioner trying to advocate does this herb have
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beneficial medical value? he was the unlikely protagonist. people from all over the country from the north coast of california to become part of the movement. with 3 percent of the electrical use in california. there is a huge migration of people drawn and then to come to a california that is now known as the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the world. there was a rush because this was the first date to start taking steps of legalization. and there are people that became characters that you
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never would have expected. >> we're in the era where we see the end of marijuana prohibition. after they have legalized marijuana for recreational use one-third of the population colorado, washington dulles dulles, oregon with recreational sales. with the district of colombia and has stopped them for doing sales of medical marijuana.
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finitude debilitate efforts ending cases and in states it is legal under state law because it was overreaching but there will still we a lot of turbulence on this issue of pension the we will reach an accord to the end of alcohol prohibition with some sort of a chord in congress to make peace on this issue but it will be played out differently in different parts of the country and it will be part of the discussion for quite some time. >> of what so many people
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are enjoying in a casual way. invented thank the young man from the late san francisco to the late '70s to the '80s with courageous doctors who fought the resistance for medical marijuana research. a great deal of people who would lay it on the line for this cause. my hope is recreational marijuana becomes widely expected it may help the medical marijuana patience that there loath to deal with medical marijuana but didn't want to give
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recommendations but those that might feel liberated to talk to patients about medical marijuana if the recreational users can go elsewhere. that cannabis can be part of their overall care. we will see how that plays out how the two constituencies continue to relate to with separate medical and recreational constituencies. >> during a recent visit to a sacramento california we discussed the city's opposition to prohibition between the end of world war i anthe repeal of the 18th amendment.
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>> i started the book with the quotation from mark twain and he said it should be called the city of saloons because you could walk up to any door ask for a drink you could get one. sacramento was very wet. that makes sense the people who came here cable over -- came from all over you will drink and coveralls and do all these things so sacramento was built with a very vibrant and lively and alcohol was a big part of that ended recruits coming here from germany and they come here because they have no wonder full availability of fresh water them growing
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hops ended establishes agree to brewing industry. and prepare our wineries is the sacramento. so all of these things is part of that development as a big agricultural area. you have hops and grapes. >> although there was wartime prohibition and ended in 1933 talking about a serbian but it is important to remember that that 75 year run up to a prohibition but that 13
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years space through 1933 that we were under federal law like everyone else and two years after the prohibition a bit of -- and bin was passed something that has become a long time cultural right was taken away to eliminate the industry's like bellhops farming and wine making anyone who worked in the field to impact things legally because ordinarily there would not break the law now they suddenly make their own wine and beer to transport somewhere the changes the character across the country for people to help of their daily lives so
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they thought about getting alcohol and consuming alcohol. prior to prohibition ended women would not have gone out together to intrigue but no prohibition women go with men to a party or a speakeasies or teenagers try to get it. the way law enforcement responded it is difficult in the beginning here is a lot that has been passed allowing for federal enforcement. in tv got to agree but if you are sworn to uphold the law there is that a mechanism you don't need to do that. california passed the enforcement act in california to enforce the
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laws but they did not stir date one dash turn a blind eye at all. but you have to have probable cause. in to actually purchase alcohol before they could come back with a warrant. there were incidents where someone in a law-enforcement where we have an incident with the kkk coming to sacramento and there was law enforcement people in of all there and there was a raid in boston angeles where the klansman was law enforcement people as part of the clan. so you have those that were enforcing what they had to
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enforce because that was their job. some of the comments so those people on the front lines were federal agents we were the problem places. somewhere in the dry campaign and you would have had but but here we have the sacramento river with 840 miles of coastline coverage right to patrol that with ships coming from canada and votes going up river from sacramento into the delta to be a sister
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city to keep the alcohol flowing san francisco may have been larger but no less than they were. right here of the of a river the delta keying was at night it would go into the delta to bring back alcohol. establish 1915 in in addition to the racial component with an issue of immigration and religious groups and it gets into
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though whole idea that prohibition is said doubt more than alcohol it is a culture war. when you looked at these various groups like the women's christian temperance union and you see a lot of anxiety over changes happening in the culture that most people are in cities and rural areas in working for wages. you have things like movies and though this may not be to the liking of some people and the culture they are starting a new social practice of dating now illegal alcohol with dating so they all create anxiety
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and that is part of the reaction of the people of the clay and. they say i want to stop this. not only anti-african-american anjou and catholic, all of these things from the sacramento perspective you have the sudden entrance of the kkk on palm sunday 1922 at the westminster presbyterian church as they would march in during the evening service to handle a letter to the of reverend with $50 in a letter that said we are watching what you we're doing we appreciate your work. in there was the immediate outcry to say we don't want this here and it started up a backlash with the
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prohibition story the prohibition story the publisher and editor was very vocal against prohibition. saloon is really the sticking point considered no good from a social standpoint and people had problems with the saloon's but alcohol and general most people did not but it was noted as one of the few newspaper publishers that was brave enough to keep speaking the truth of prohibition because forces were pretty powerful there a lot of people in the press afraid of them as part of that story, he was lifelong
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friends with the governor of california at and our senator ted washington and johnson entered the senate to read at the time prohibition was being debated. he stepped into his first term in the senate and wrote letters back and forth provide about what to do here there is a lot of arguments of the liquor machine with of prohibition people have a lot of power i don't think that is right. what you hear from sacramento and mcclatchy would put in the paper his opinions and he gave a voice and to world war world that were incensed to find out they had no opportunity to have a place -- a voice so
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when it comes to the kkk mcclatchy published every thing he got to identify anybody who joined or what was happening with the raids. he was very quick to publish and with the district tourney in los angeles raided the headquarters a got a hold of the california membership list he publishes in the newspaper and people in sacramento could see everyone who had beneficial of some type of law enforcement so mcclatchy was peerless so his role of prohibition he kept pointing
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out to people we have these raids but prohibition ended december 5th, 1933. with the 18th amendment was ratified it was one of the year before it was the law of the plant the repeal is immediate. with them having day convention to ratify their watching two-seat with the requisite number of states and on december that three states there were slated to render the decision so they'd new prohibition will officially be of - - over. they would play in the stores of alcohol in sacramento of loan on december fed the 1933, and
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there is $300,000 worth of alcohol waiting for sale that is about 5.$5 million today. like a long time furniture and housewares stores starting in sacramento they ran ads with special glassware for your repeal parties. people didn't have a bar where. didn't have special glasses for cocktail's so the ripple effect so they threw open the doors year's leave it was extremely wet. [laughter] there was a lot of drinking it was like a big party that happy-- are here again.
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book fair at a school if we say book fair people don't know what it is but antiquarian obviously means old but what we sell is not necessarily old. a better definition may be old and collectible but there are relatively modern books year for sale. some specialties that are very popular, cookbooks, a history of the western united states states, cowboys, indians, a gold rush, a gold mining, military history is very popular, world travel, and especially china and japan. anything with maps of early explorers.
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we run the gamut and it depends of the individual businesses so each is really a reflection of the of personality of that dealer. all lots of modern fiction. that doesn't necessarily mean five years old but novels from the 20th century up through now so someone like hemingway even though they are dead and the books are 56 years old is modern fiction but to specialize in that type of material. >> diamide dealer from salt lake city so those first
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editions it is the fund and a small book fair to do. so to see friends of my semi regular basis. and this is the time to get out of the book fair when we can see each other. >> the internet has knocked the wind out of the sales for the trade shows because people would line up and pay lots of money and go look for stuff but now the internet makes things seem less rare so it is harder to read a quality book fair because it isn't as much emergency because they think i can look that up on the internet's.
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but we still have enough material we have a good crowd to keep the show going that shows have gone out of business in many cities because they cannot get enough dealers because there are not even if customers. >> the internet has to is the way people sold ooks it is also resulting in bookstores. so you could have a shop in people put in an book fares 100 booksellers gather together with different inventories with a one day or two day event.
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>> i am here to sell books and meet customers in meet my colleagues. >> many repeat customers that come to every show some look for children's books or california history. summer looking for old photographs or postcards. but they know because some other than our state will be here and they have sold things in the past. and i have books that deal
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there's a book corer $10. >> without a high end material but a $50,000 book kiam sell here. that isn't typical but you can find that. so the higher end dealers really sell one book for only $50,000 someone else may sell 100 book for $10. so the customers are as varied as the dealers from all levels.
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ice abb and the 40 or $60 range. but i sell post cards today for $20 somebody else sold one book for 1,000. >> you were asking about the cat in the attached is a universal book we all knew why is that $2,000? is the first printing of the first edition of the book. it has all the points, the dust jacket, in the in the book issue with the dust jacket particularly a children's book was usually destroyed by young children reading the books if it does not have the dust jacket
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anymore. that is why that copy is to thousand dollars. the one from your childhood is maybe $5. printed in selma alabama in 1858 pin to decided to go cross-country in search of a better life. so they wanted to use the and then they came to california into said diego this is one of the most important narrative's it is
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the internet they will not listed there because they know operated to a trade show because i have field space for sale and the customers have to come here. it is something that i practice a lot. if i find little pamphlets or photographs in to have that children's book 10 years ago would be readily available on the internet with a small town of brothers and california that they just published in their garage. but a dealer with the death knowledge will say i will
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bring it to the book show. with a pamphlet that nobody else has. >> we have some of the biggest book fares in the world there very high-powered and expensive but by contrast this is a regional show. so we get a lot of new collectors that is why i was asked about the cat in the hat because people are
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dumbfounded $2,000 price. >> this was a california as a gold rush journal. looking at him francisco 1849. >> it is roughly $300 of booth depending on the display cases. patrons could pay $5 but i give all exhibitors of limited free passes said they can give a free pass to 500 people if they want. is also available in the antiques store or the bookstore leading up to the show. i also put them in the local
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newspaper so someone wants to get in for free doesn't too hard or if they don't mind to walk-in to pay $5. people do that as well. there are a few dealers to get free passes but choose to pay the $5 because they appreciate we still have this cultural event so they refuse to use those free passes. . .
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