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Historical Research on Drug Policy 
1800 - 1850 
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Recommended Reading 
 
  - New! - Medical Marijuana Throughout History
    - Pictures of more than 100 medicines that once contained cannabis
    extracts 
 
  - Confessions of an English Opium Eater
    by Thomas de Quincey -- This is the famous essay on opium from the early 1800's. 
 
  - Opium in China (1700-1860)
    
 
  - Ludlow on Cannabis: A Modern Look at a
    Nineteenth Century Drug Experience  - Oriana Josseau Kalant -
    Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Research Foundation Toronto, Canada 
 
  - On the Culture and Preparing
    Hemp in Russia, John Quincy Adams, 1810
 
  - Report from the Navy
    Department on American Water-Rotted Hemp - 1827
 
  - Letter from Lin Tse-hsu to
    Queen Victoria On The Opium Trade, 1839 
 
  - On the Preparations of the Indian
    Hemp, or Gunjah (Cannabis Indica); Their Effects on the Animal System
    in Health, and Their Utility in the Treatment of Tetanus and Other Convulsive Diseases -
    By W. B. O'Shaughnessy, M.D., 1839.
 
  - An Opium-Eater in
    America by William Blair The Knickerbocker, July 1842 
 
  - The Lincoln Quote
    - Some commentary on a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
 
  - Temperance Address,
    Delivered before the Springfield (Illinois) Washington Temperance Society, on the 22d
    February, 1842 by Abraham Lincoln
 
  - Excerpts from the
    Dispensatory of the United States of America - Fifth Edition
    Philadelphia: Grigg and Elliot (1843) by George B. Wood, M.D., 
 
  - Excerpts from New
    Remedies: Pharmaceutically and Therapeutically Considered Fourth
    Edition Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard (1843) by Robley Dunglison, M.D., 
 
  - "Hashish
    Smokers" (1845). Lithograph. Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
 
  - An Opium Fantasy
    By Maria White Lowell (1821-1853)
 
  - The Vision of Hashish
    by Bayard Taylor, 1854
 
  - Prohibition in
    Connecticut - 1855
 
  - Hemp article
    - from the Encyclopedia Brittanica, 1856 
 
  - The Hasheesh Eater
    - Anonymous Putnam's Magazine September 1856 
 
  - The Apocalypse of
    Hasheesh by Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Putnam's Magazine, December, 1856
 
  - On the Haschisch or
    Cannabis Indica John Bell, M.D. The Boston Medical and Surgical
    Journal 16 April 1857 & 23 April 1857 
 
  - Tilden's Extract of Cannabis
    - 1858
 
  - Hasheesh and Hasheesh
    Eaters, Harper's Magazine, 1858
 
 
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