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Historical Research on Drug Policy
1920
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Recommended Reading
- New! The Reefer
Madness Collection - Hundreds of examples of hilarious Reefer
Madness from history.
- New! - Medical Marijuana Throughout History
- Pictures of more than 100 medicines that once contained cannabis
extracts
 Federal Court Decisions 1920-1929- Did
Alcohol Prohibition Reduce Alcohol Consumption and Crime? - A
list of quotes and references online that discuss whether alcohol
prohibition during the 1920s reduced alcohol abuse and the related crime.
Some interesting and funny reading.
 The Opium Monopoly by Ellen N. La Motte - 1920 -
An account of the opium trade in Asia in the first part of the Twentieth Century - Alcohol
Prohibition Was a Failure by Mark O. Thornton
- Drug
Import Restriction Modified - NY Times, January 7, 1920
- Plan National Drive Against
Drug Traffic, New York Times March 7, 1920, Revenue Bureau
Officials Find Alarming Increase in Victims and Prepare to Enforce Law.
- Experiences in Narcotic
Drug Control in the State of New York, By Sara Graham-Mulhall, New
York Medical Journal, Vol. 113 (January 15, 1921), 106-11.
- Opium Evil Up
to League - NY Times, July 3, 1921
- Marahuana - A New Menace
- Chapter 23 of the Black Candle by By Emily F. Murphy, Police Magistrate and Judge of the
Juvenile Court, Edmonton, Canada, 1922
- What Prohibition Has Done to America -
by Fabian Franklin, 1922
- Narcotic Bill is
Signed - New Law Establishes a Federal Board to Control Imports - NY
Times, May 27, 1922
- Prohibition
- Chapter XXXVII, from The American Government By Frederic J. Haskin, 1923
- Labor
Secretary Backs New War on Drug Traffic - January 10, 1923
- Marihuana is
Newest Drug - New York Times January 11, 1923 - Smoked in Cigarette--
Is Shown at Women's Meeting.
- Drugs Sold to Pupils,
New York Times February 3, 1923; Rochester Peddlers Are Said to Accost Them After School.
- Ask
World Control of Drug Production - NY Times, May 3, 1923
- 1,500,000 Drug Users in America,
- The New York Times May 14, 1923
- Asks Law
to Forbid Making of Heroin - NY Times, December 25, 1923
- The New Galahad
- Comments on alcohol Prohibition by H. L. Mencken, from The American Mercury, March and
April, 1924
- Hot Baths for Drug Users,
The New York Times March 9, 1924, State Reformatory for Women Has Novel Treatment.
- Judge Rutherford and Alcohol
Prohibition - The second president of The Watchtower Bible and Tract
Society, Judge Rutherford, was furious about the liquor prohibition
in the USA. In this article from the Watchtower of November 1, 1924, he explains why.
- One Million Americans Victims
of Drug Habit - The New York Times November 9, 1924
- A Minor De Quincey -
Louis J. Bragman, M.D. Syracuse, N. Y. Medical Journal and Record Vol. CXXI -- January to
June, 1925
- Linder v. United States
- No. 183. U.S. Supreme Court, 268 U.S. 5, Submitted March 9, 1925. Decided April 13,
1925.
In this landmark case, the United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously, 9-0, that
narcotics agents had no legal right to interfere in the medical prescription of narcotics
-- even if the prescription was solely intended to maintain the narcotics addict on their
drug of choice. This was a major legal setback to the supporters of the narcotics laws who
wanted to stop narcotics maintenance as a moral issue. In response, the narcotics agents
got around the ruling by indicting 15,000 people in the following years (by their own
records) but didn't bring any of them to trial simply because they knew they would lose in
court. The indictments, however, were sufficient to instill enough fear to permanently
stop all medical attempts at narcotics maintenance in the United States. More information
on this topic will soon be coming to the library.
- Mexico Bans
Marihuana - New York Times December 29, 1925 - To Stamp Out Drug Plant
Which Crazes Its Addicts
- Indian Hemp
- Chapter XIX from Opium as an International Problem, the Geneva Conferences, 1925
- Senate Judiciary Committee
Hearings on National Prohibition, April, 1926
- Our Home Hasheesh Crop
- Literary Digest, April 23, 1926
- Foes of
Drug Evil Call a World Meeting - NY Times, July 13, 1926
- Our War on Drugs
Told - NY Times, July 14, 1926
- Says Drug Addicts Number
1,000,000 - NY Times July 8, 1926 - Captain Hobson Charges Health
Service Suppressed Report on American Victims. - Doctors Dispute Figures
- America's Resolution Calling for
End of Drug Traffic Adopted in Geneva - NY Times, August 30, 1926
- Opium
Conference Backs Porter Plan - NY Times, August 31, 1926
- Drug Addicts Increase
- NY Times January 3, 1927
- Tranum v. Stringer, 113 So. 541 (Ala. 1927) -
Alabama Supreme Court Decision on search and seizure of alcohol in an automobile.
- Hemp Varieties of Improved
Type Are Result of Selection - USDA 1928
- Opens World Drive on Drug
Traffic Mussolini Offers Support - NY Times, March 8, 1928
- New Drug
Cure Swamps Bellevue - The New York Times December 18, 1928
- Tightening up the
Harrison Act - Chapter 9 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and
Illicit Drugs, 1972
- Marijuana and
Alcohol Prohibition - Chapter 55 of the Consumers Union Report on
Licit and Illicit Drugs
- The Federal Council of
Churches and Prohibition
- Fiorello LaGuardia on
Prohibition - The Mayor of New York's statement on Prohibition.
- A Glimpse Behind the
Mask of Prohibition, by Percy Andrae
- Prohibition-Era
Cartoon on the Anti-Saloon League
- Student Testimony
Against Prohibition
- Women's National Committee
for Law Enforcement
- The Killing of Henry Virkula
- Killed in the name of alcohol Prohibition
- Comments
on Alcohol Prohibition by President Herbert Hoover, 1929
- Unanimous In Rejecting Narcosan,
The New York Times January 12, 1929
- Coolidge Signs Narcotics Farm
Bill - NY Times January 20, 1929
- Judge Upholds Dry Killer, So
He Goes Free - Chicago Times - February 12, 1929
- Seizure of Diplomatic
Liquor Creates International Incident -Time Magazine, April 1, 1929
- The Nightmare of
Cocaine, By A Former "Snow-Bird" North American Review, Vol.
227 (April, 1929), 418-22.
- Two Federal Prison
Farms to Care for Drug Addicts - NY Times, April 14, 1929
- The Sinking of the I'm Alone
- Song about the sinking of a rum running boat by Prohibition agents, 1929
- The Opium Problem
- Terry and Pellens, 1929
- Smoking
Marihuana Upheld in Panama - Supreme Court Rules Use of Indian Hemp
Not Forbidden After Man Is Arrested. Special Cable to The New York Times, September 9,
1929
- Claims
Quick "Dope" Cure, NY Times, November 10 1929, German
Physician Uses Psychoanalysis To Open Sanatorium
- Narcotic Remedy Claimed,
The New York Times December 11, 1929, Egyptian Doctor Said to Have Effected Fifteen Cures.
- Elliot
Ness, The Man Behind the Myth -- Online electronic biography
- Al
Capone - Web site from the Chicago Historical Society
- Volstead Act Statistics - Alcohol Prohibition - 1920-1929
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