Historical Research on Drug Policy

1800 - 1850

= 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