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Historical Research on Drug Policy
1960
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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.
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