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Donald L. Grunsky
Donald Lucius Grunsky (October 19, 1915 – January 13, 2000) served in the California State Assembly for the 32nd district from 1947 to 1953, and served in the California State Senate for the 23rd and 17th district from 1953 to 1976. During World War II he also served in the United States Navy. Grunsky is best known for having sponsored the legislation that made the hallucinogen LSD illegal. After California became the first state to ban the drug, effective October 1966, October 6, 1966, other states followed suit and the U.S. federal government included LSD as one of its Schedule I drugs under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970."Grunsky Explains His LSD Law", ''Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel'', October 5, 1966, p1 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th most populous in the United States, with 815,201 residents as of 2021. It covers a land area of , at the end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second most densely populated large U.S. city after New York City, and the fifth most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. Among the 91 U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco was ranked first by per capita income (at $160,749) and sixth by aggregate income as of 2021. Colloquial nicknames for San Francisco include ''SF'', ''San Fran'', ''The '', ''Frisco'', and ''Baghdad by the Bay''. San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area are a global center of economic activity and the arts and sciences, spurred ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
