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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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