Historical Research on Drug Policy

1960

= Recommended Reading

• New! The Reefer Madness Collection - Hundreds of examples of hilarious Reefer Madness from history.
• Federal Court Decisions - 1960-1969
• 'Beats' in Center of Coast Unrest - NY Times, January 31, 1960
• Drug Addiction: Crime or Disease? Joint Committee of the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association on Narcotic Drugs, Interim and Final Reports, 1961:
• Comments on Narcotic Drugs - Anslinger's reply to the ABA-AMA report.
• The Strange Case of the Harvard Drug Scandal, by Andrew T. Weil, Look Magazine, November 5, 1963
• The historical antecedents of glue-sniffing - Chapter 43 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• How to launch a nationwide drug menace- Chapter 44 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• Hemp Around Their Necks -- Chapter 3 of Harry Anslinger's 1961 book "The Murderers". - Among other things he tells how the La Guardia Committee Report gave children a signal to light up as many reefers as they want.
• Cigarettes - and the 1964 report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee - Chapter 26 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• Heroin on the youth drug scene - and in Vietnam - Chapter 20 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs.
• How speed was popularized - Chapter 38 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs

• How LSD was popularized, 1962-1969 - Chapter 50 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs

• How the hazards of LSD were augmented, 1962-1969 - Chapter 51 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs

• America discovers marijuana - Chapter 57 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• Operation Intercept - The Multiple Consequences of Social Policy -  by Lawrence A. Gooberman -
• The 1969 marijuana shortage and "Operation Intercept" - Chapter 59 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• Scope of Drug Use - Chapter 61 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• The Haight-Ashbury, its predecessors and its satellites - Chapter 63 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• Why a youth drug scene? - Chapter 64 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
• The Wootton Report on Cannabis - A major study of marijuana policy from the United Kingdom.
• Leary v. United States - US Supreme Court - May 19, 1969 - This is the Supreme Court decision which declared the Marihuana Tax Act unconstitutional.