Depending on how long your family was in the US, it could have been a Spanish ancestor here. There was a lot of undesirable ancestry that was deliberately forgotten by families, until genetic testing revealed it.

It also could have happened in Europe. People did move around in the past, just not as much.

There’s a common story in Norway of Spanish sailors surviving wrecks of the 1588 Armada against England, as it retreated to the North Sea and rounded Scotland, subsequently marrying into the Norwegian population. Norwegians will tell you this is a bunch of bullshit, like white Americans claiming an Indian princess as an ancestor. But my Norwegian-born grandfather did have genetically-proven Spanish ancestry, and claimed to have found genealogical records in Norway that proved that story.

Funnily enough, I also have genetically-proven indigenous American ancestry from the American side of my family. Couldn’t say it was an Indian princess, though. Any records are lost. The family myth was 100% Northwestern European until the tests came back.

It’s going to be like the 1979 oil crisis after the 1979 revolution, only worse, because this time Iran is disrupting oil production and transportation outside the country, too.

California doesn’t have jurisdiction over the hundred or so Indian reservations in the state, so pretty much everyone is within an hour’s drive of an ordinary storefront legally selling untaxed cigarettes.

Perhaps it varies regionally, but even the lawyer cringed, and didn’t use it himself.

The -trix suffix was dead long before there were many female doctors, only surviving in dominatrix.

When my grandparents died, my mother kept referring to herself as the executrix while handling the estate. People would visibly cringe every time she did, until I got her to stop.

They were suplussed very cheaply. They’re just ugly as sin.

Woman doctor is much older, and makes grammatical sense under the assumption that doctor is an exclusively male title. Female doctor implies that male and female are both ordinary categories of doctors.

pho-militaristic

You want the French faux, not Vietnamese soup.

During all that time, the law of prohibition was making it more potent, to make it easier to smuggle.

Not at all. The US market was dominated for a long time by very low quality Mexican cannabis, where the growers seemed to treat it like industrial hemp production, producing large bales full of stems and seeds, poorly cured, with little regard for THC content. As it became more difficult to smuggle their bulky product across the border into the US, Mexican producers responded by smuggling in the laborers, instead, to produce the same low quality product inside the United States, on clandestine farms on public lands. Law enforcement responded to this with aerial surveillance, forcing growers indoors. That’s the point where quality began to improve, as growing indoors is more technically challenging, creating more proficient farmers, and quality improvements allowed the more expensive to produce indoor cannabis to compete with low quality outdoor grown cannabis.

Only once indoor production began to dominate the market did concentrates like hash oil begin to become common, as the more technically proficient growers gained the expertise to produce it, and had an economic pressure to maximize THC yields from what at that point had become agricultural waste, with a more discerning consumer now unwilling to smoke anything less than seedless flowers.