Historical Research on Drug Policy

1890

= 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
• An Enterprising Turk, The New York Times July 1, 1890, p. 8 This is a story about how a Turk decided to sell diluted opium and was quickly driven out of business by public exposure.
• An "Opium Joint" Raided. The New York Times September 28, 1891, p. 2.
• The San Francisco Opium Joints -- The Review of Reviews 5 June (1892), p. 604

• A lurid description of the San Francisco opium dens. It is worth noting that San Francisco had passed ordinances outlawing opium smoking in opium dens some 17 years before this article was written.

• Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report, 1894
• Orgies of the Hemp Eaters, From the New York Herald, Friday, March 15, 1895
• In The Land of Opium. - The Immense Areas Given to the Growth of the Poppy - The New York Times March 29, 1896, p. 28
• Oil-Producing Seeds - Hemp, USDA Yearbook, 1896
• A Short History of the Chinese Opium Wars
• Bayer Advertisement for Heroin, 1897
• Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise, by Havelock Ellis The Contemporary Review January 1898
• The Opium Industry in America by C.F. Holder, Scientific American 1898, p. 147 This is a review of the opium industry as it existed in the late 19th century.
• Alcohol and Opium Compared: Opinions of over 100 Physicians on the use of Opium in China -- Compiled by William Hector Park, M.D., American Presbyterian Mission Press, Shanghai, 1899
• Nineteenth Century America - "a dope fiends paradise" - Chapter 1 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972
• Opiates for pain relief, for tranquilization, and for pleasure - Chapter 2 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972
• What kinds of people used opiates? - Chapter 3 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972
• Some eminent narcotics addicts - Chapter 5 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs, 1972
• The Case of Dr. Sigmund Freud - Chapter 24 of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs.
• Cannabis Indica Poisoning BY J.C. O'DAY, M.D. The Plexus, 1899-1900