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			Historical Research on Drug Policy
		
		
			1950 
		
		
			 = Recommended Reading 
		
		  
		
			- New! The
              Reefer Madness Collection - Hundreds of examples of
              hilarious Reefer Madness from history.
			
   Federal Court Decisions 1950-1959
			 1977 Senate Hearing on MKULTRA - on the CIAs experiments with LSD and other drugs during the 1950s.
			- "Marihuana" - Dime Novel Cover
			
 - Reefer Club (Marijuana Novel Cover)
			
 - Illegal Searches Assailed by Court - The New York Times March 4, 1950
			
 - Narcotics Arrests Show Sharp Rise - The New York Times March 5, 1950 - New York Leads All Districts in U. S.  Marijuana Seizures Increase in Volume
			
 - Narcotics Addicts on Increase in City - The New York Times April 18, 1950
			
 - Hormone Injected in Two Addictions - The New York Times June 3, 1950, Clinical Success Is Reported in Adrenal-Cortical Therapy for Alcoholic and Narcotic
			
 - Heroin Addicts Mount - The New York Times December 3, 1950 - U.S., Canada and Britain Report 'Graduation' From Marijuana
			
 - Stiffer Law Asked in Narcotics Cases - The New York Times February 8, 1951, Prison sentences up to twenty years for narcotics sellers urged
			
 - Relapses Run High in Narcotic 'Cures' - The New York Times February 18, 1951, City Treatment of Teen-Age Addicts held Inadequate--Growing Problem Seen
			
 - Girl, 21, Gets Year in Narcotics Sales - The New York Times February 28, 1951 - Newark Dealer Also is Held on Charges of Impairing the Morals of Minors
			
 - U. S. Finds Heroin Big Narcotic Snag - The New York Times May 2, 1951 - Delegate Tells U.N. Smuggling Is Chiefly from Italy, Greece,Turkey and Red China
			
 - Narcotic Menace Held Nation-wide - The New York Times June 18, 1951 - Narcotic addiction among juveniles has reached epidemic proportions Federal narcotics officials say
			
 - Youths Found Crossing to Mexico for Narcotics - The New York Times September 1, 1951 - The committee said many youngsters were visiting towns, across the Mexican border "for the sole purpose" of obtaining drugs such as marihuana 
			
 - Italy Called Heroin Center - The New York Times September 1, 1951 - Senate Crime Committee reported that Italy apparently was the center of the world's illicit heroin trade
			
 - Repeaters Failing in Narcotics Cure - The New York Times October 3, 1951
			
 - Narcotic Use Rise Held 'Tremendous' - The New York Times December 21, 1951 - A "tremendous increase" in teen-age users of narcotics reported by special committee
			
 - Holiday of Horrors - Comic book about marijuana, 1952
			
 - 9 on Rikers Island Seized in Round-Up of Narcotics Ring - The New York Times January 12, 1952 - 6 Correction Aides, 3 Civilian Employees of City Prison Linked to Inmate Sales 
			
 - Teen-Age Addicts Reported Fewer - The New York Times February 10, 1952 - Narcotics Bureau Says Upward Trend Was Halted in 1951 and 'Mobsters' Jailed
			
 - Narcotics Counts in Schools Drops - The New York Times April 30, 1952  - Dr. Jansen Reports Only 30 Known Cases, Compared With 154 Listed a Year Ago
			
 - Traffic in Narcotics is Flourishing - The New York Times May 11, 1952 - UN Commission Told Communist China is Biggest Offender
			
  The Traffic in Narcotics - by Harry Anslinger, US Commissioner of Narcotics
			- Coast Heroin Flow Laid To Red China - The New York Times November 24, 1953 - Senate told heroin from Communist China responsible for the rise in narcotics addiction among juveniles on the West Coast.
			
 - Many G. I.'S In Korea Found To Be Addicts - The New York Times January 27, 1953 - A "frightfully high number" of American soldiers in Korea are victims of narcotics addiction, Cardinal Spellman said last night
			
 - G. I. Use Of Narcotics In Korea Minimized - The New York Times January 29, 1953
			
 - Mexico Denies Aiding Illicit Drug Traffic - The New York Times May 15, 1953 - The Mexican Government lodged a formal protest against charges that Mexico was tacitly encouraging international traffic in heroin
			
 - City Youth Addicts Estimated at 7,500 - The New York Times November 25, 1953 - Welfare Worker's Testimony to Senate Group Clashes with Anslinger's Figure of 748
			
 - Cut in Smuggling is Reported Here -  The New York Times January 10, 1954, Customs Data for This Port in 1953 Show Drop of 969 in All Types of Seizures
			
 - The Vicious Poppy - The New York Times January 11, 1954 - Review of The Traffic in Narcotics By Harry J. Anslinger and William F. Tomkins.
			
 - Javits Reports Rise In Use of Narcotics - The New York Times September 4, 1955 - Attorney General Jacob K. Javits declared that narcotics use might have reached "a record high."
			
 - Surplus of Opium Looms for the World - The New York Times January 11, 1955 - U.N. Unit Sees Legal Supply for 2-1/2 Years--- Reports Progress in Control
			
 - East Side Physician Faces Speedy Trial - The New York Times March 4, 1955
			
 - US Held Unable to Bar Narcotics - The New York Times, June 4, 1955
			
 - 35,000 Addicts Listed in U.S. - The New York Times June 27, 1956
			
 - 44,146 Drug Addicts Counted - The New York Times September 11, 1958
			
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Drugs and Washington, D.C.
- Ladies Home Journal, December, 1978, Vol. 95 - An expose of drug use in
Washington, D.C. Mentions that Senator Joseph McCarthy was a heroin addict.
 
               
		   
		  
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