Historical Research on Drug Policy

1870

= Recommended Reading

• New! - Medical Marijuana Throughout History - Pictures of more than 100 medicines that once contained cannabis extracts
• From the Editor's Easy Chair - Fitz Hugh Ludlow, 1870
• The Gentle, Inoffensive Chinese -- from Volume II, Chapter XIII of Roughing It, by Mark Twain, 1871. This is included here to help give readers an understanding of the racial feelings which were behind the earliest anti-opium smoking laws.
• The Arts of Intoxication, The Aim and the Results By Rev. J. T. Crane, DD, 1871 (GIF page images)
• The Hemp Intoxicant - Excerpt from The Arts of Intoxication, 1871
• The Use and Abuse of Opium By F. E. Oliver, M.D. Massachusetts State Board of Health, Third Annual Report (Boston: Wright and Potter, State Printers, 1872), 162-77.
• A Cruise on the Barbary Coast -   San Francisco, 1873
• The Hemp Intoxicant - Appleton's Journal, 1873
• Opium Smoking is Outlawed - Chapter 6 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972
• Women's Crusade of 1873-74
• Vices Are Not Crimes, A Vindication of Moral Liberty by Lysander Spooner, 1875
• An Opium Den Excerpts from California, A Pleasure Trip from Gotham to the Golden Gate  - 1877   by Mrs. Frank Leslie
• Ruined by Rum - A Tale of Facts, Together With a Plea for Temperance, by A Lady, 1877
• Poisons of the Intelligence - Hasheesh, Popular Science Monthly, 1878
• An Opium Dream by Santa Louise Anderson 1879
• Chinatown Declared a Nuisance! - A pamphlet from San Francisco illustrating the anti-Chinese sentiment during the late 1800s.
• Chinatown Opium Den - San Francisco, 1870s
• Select Temperance Tracts Published by the American Tract Society