Marijuana was decriminalized in CA a LONG time ago. What has happened now is de-misdemeanorization

The race and course of age is certain; and there is but one way of nature and the same simple; and to every part of a man's life and age are given his convenient times and proper tempestivities.

Father O’Neill’s station was one of the most perilous in the mission field. Toishan (whence come 90 per cent of Chinese who migrate to America) is on a branch of the West River which forms the southern boundary of the Canton Delta. On the north bank were the Japanese, entrenched with pillboxes, machine guns, field guns and mortars. On the south bank, as firm as a pillbox in his determination to carry on the church and relief work, was Father O’Neill.

At the start of the century, widows in Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, and Charleston were printers, shoemakers, engravers, and silversmiths, and sometimes blacksmiths, shipbuilders, or gunwrights.