Acknowledgments

My thanks and appreciation to:
Kathy Goss, compiler, scholar, typist, etc.
Bob Barker, of the Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library, for dedicated efforts coordinating production.
Nancy, my wife, critic, financial backer, supporter, etc.
Alex Shulgin, chemical wizard of psychoactive drugs, forensic toxicology, etc., for proof-reading and clarifying Sec-tion V with all those cryptic chemical structures.
The librarians at the National Library of Medicine for find-ing O'Shaughnessy's picture, which I'd sought for five years.
The librarians of the University of California, San Fran-cisco, School of Medicine Library Historical Collection for helping me find the obscure.
Al Berger of Medical World News for documenting and defining the Defense Department's secret cannabinoid re-search during 1954-59 with his usual probing competence.
Larry Noggle for the layout of the chapters containing chemical formulae.
Dana Reemes for layout and indexing.
'Michael Horowitz for kindly proof-reading the galleys. Michael Aldrich for illustrations and comments.
Bill Rock for last-minute assistance.
Hendra & Howard for photocomposing.
Amorphia for help with production.
E. A. Gladman Memorial Foundation for diverse assistance.

Reprint Acknowledgments

The editor vvishes to thank the following publishers and authors for their kind permission to quote from their works: Parke, Davis and Company and L. M. Wheeler, Ph.D., for his letter; The American Pharmaceutical Association for "The Physiological Activity of Cannabis Sativa"; J. B. Lippincott Company and R. P. Walton, M.D., for "Description of the Hashish Experience" and for "Marihuana: Therapeutic Appli-cation"; Lancet for "The Use of Indian Hemp in the Treat-ment of Chronic Chloral and Chronic Opium Poisoning" and for "Therapeutical Uses and Toxic Effects of Cannabis In-dica"; The Federation of American Societies for Experi-mental Biology and Jean P. Davis, M.D., for "Antiepileptic Action of Marihuana Active Substances"; The Ronald Press and S. Allentuck, M.D., for "Medical Aspects: Symptoms and Behavior"; The British Journal of Psychiatry and Frances Ames, M.D., for "A Clinical and Metabolic Study of Acute-Intoxication with Cannabis Sativa and Its Role in the Model Psychosis"; Science and A. T. Weil, M.D., for "Clinical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana in Man"; Science for "Clinical and Physiological Notes on the Action of Cannabis Indica"; J. B. Lippincott Company for "Dispensatory of the United States of America, 20th Ed."; Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine for "Marihuana"; Springer-Ver-lag, Berlin, Heidelberg & New York, for "The Active Prin-ciples of Cannabis and the Pharmacology of the Cannabinols"; Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, Haight-Ashbury Medical Clinic of San Francisco, and Alexander T. Shulgin, Ph.D., for "Re-cent Developments in Cannabis Chemistry"; David Musto, M.D., for "The 1937 Marihuana Tax Act."