I live in a tourist town and in the 90s the influx of illegals began and replaced most of the students and legal foreign temp workers in the motel and restaurant industries. By 2000 they had taken a majority of construction jobs here too. About two years ago I noticed that most of them seemed to have left. I made a passing remark to a friend that the lousy economy had sent them packing.
He and his wife are well-versed in the new MM laws and the people around here who are taking advantage of it. He replied; "they didn't leave because of the economy they left because most of them were selling Mexican pot and their market dried up when the pot shops opened." Made sense since the motels, restaurants and a good deal of the construction are still here.
...but other parts were known and used medicinally, including for the euphoric effect...
I know a little about TCM and have friends trained in it and have never heard of Chinese use of anything but the seeds. Not saying they don't but I've never heard it or seen it listed in their pharmacopeias.
“Not saying they don’t but I’ve never heard it or seen it listed in their pharmacopeias.”
I’m using the past tense above because I don’t know of anywhere in the Chinese-speaking world where it’s now legal to do so. I’m no expert in traditional Chinese medicine; I’d only seen it listed in a book in English I came across on their pharmacopoeia which listed parts used as seeds and aerial parts - leaves and flowers.
“About two years ago I noticed that most of them seemed to have left.”
That’s surprising if so many of them were involved in the drug trade. Being free of illegal aliens would of course be a good thing, but surely there are other ways to be free of them? Operation Wetback didn’t need to legalize marijuana to work.