`The oppression of crowns and principalities is un-questionably over, but the more frightful oppres-sion of selfish, ruthless, and merciless majorities may yet constitute one of the chapters of future history."

—Peter S. Grosscup
Judge, U. S. District Court, Illinois 1894

"I had to operate courts for sixteen years in a way that I cannot justify. I could not help realizing in the course of my experience that the legal ap-proach to drug addiction has become just about the most absurd and vicious operation that man can imagine."

—John M. Murtagh
Justice, New York Supreme Court 1971

1    Senator Hughes's Friendly Anger

2    From Our Pusher Ancestors to the First Prohibitionists

3    The Sensible Century and Mr. Harrison's Tax Act 

4    Hysterical Beginnings

5    Enforcers Versus Healers

6    Dr. Behrman, Dr. Linder, and the High Court 

7    Dr. Ratigan's Lonely Battle

8    Congressman Coffee and His Slender Company

9    Mephistopheles and Pot

10    The Weed of Madness and the Little Flower

11    Smearing Mary Jane   

12    Balancing the Grass Account  

13    Chairman Kefauver and the Mafia Myth 

14    Lawyers, Doctors, and Senator Daniel

15    New York, September 1955

16    The Narcotic Control Act of 1956

17    Follow-the-Leader in State Capitols  

18    ABA-AMA, No Match for HJA   

19    The National Institutes Symposium   

20    The British and Other "Systems"  

21    Proselytizing the World 

22    The White House Conference, 1962-63   

23    Advice from a Commission   

24    Rehabilitation, from Nothing to NARA   

25    Dangerous Drugs: Here We Go Again! 

26    Drug-Abuse Control, 1965  

27    And Now, D-Men

28    The 1970 Act: Don't Sit There, Amend Something

29    The Bad Scene Today

30    So, What's Right?

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