EDITOR'S FOREWORD: THE MARIHUANA MYTHS David Solomon

INTRODUCTION Alfred R. Lindesmith, PhD

BOOK ONE: HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL PAPERS

1. THE PLEASANT ASSASSIN: THE STORY OF MARIHUANA Dr. Norman Taylor

2. THE MARIHUANA PROBLEM; MYTH OR REALITY? Dr. Alfred R. Lindesmith

3. MARIHUANA: A SOCIOLOGICAL OVERVIEW Dr. Howard S. Becker

BECOMING A MARIHUANA USER

MARIHUANA USE AND SOCIAL CONTROL

THE MARIHUANA TAX ACT

4. BHANG AND ALCOHOL: CULTURAL FACTORS IN THE CHOICE OF INTOXICANTS George Morris Carstairs, DPM, FRCP

5. THE POLITICS, ETHICS, AND MEANING OF MARIJUANA Dr. Timothy Leary

6. HISTORICAL NOTES W. Reininger

BOOK TWO: LITERARY AND IMAGINATIVE PAPERS

1. THE HERB PANTAGRUELION François Rabelais

2. THE HASHISH CLUB Théophile Gautier

3. AN EXCERPT FROM THE SERAPHIC THEATRE Charles Baudelaire

4. SELECTIONS FROM THE HASHEESH EATER Fitzhugh Ludlow

5. THE STORY OF LAHCEN AND IDIR Paul Bowles

6. RED-DIRT MARIHUANA Terry Southern

7. FIRST MANIFESTO TO END THE BRINGDOWN Allen Ginsberg

8. EXPERIMENTS WITH HASHISH Victor Robinson, MD

9. NOTES ON THE USE OF HASHISH Sheldon Cholst, MD

BOOK THREE: SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

1. THE MARIHUANA PROBLEM IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK

Mayor LaGuardia's Committee on Marihuana

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

THE CLINICAL STUDY

MEDICAL ASPECTS

SYMPTOMS AND BEHAVIOR

ORGANIC AND SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONS

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

PSYCHOPHYSICAL . . . FUNCTIONS

INTELLECTUAL FUNCTIONING

EMOTIONAL REACTIONS AND GENERAL PERSONALITY STRUCTURE

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY IDEOLOGIES

COMPARISON BETWEEN USERS AND NON-USERS

ADDICTION AND TOLERANCE

POSSIBLE THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS

PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDY

SUMMARY

2. PSYCHIATRIC ASPECTS OF MARIHUANA INTOXICATION Samuel Allentuck, MD, and Karl Bowman, MD

3. A NEW EUPHORIANT FOR DEPRESSIVE MENTAL STATES George Tayleur Stockings, MB, BS, DPM

4. PYRAHEXYL IN THE TREATMENT OF ALCOHOLIC AND DRUG WITHDRAWAL CONDITIONS Lloyd J. Thompson, MD, and Richard Proctor, MD

5. POINTS OF DISTINCTION BETWEEN SEDATIVE AND CONSCIOUSNESS-EXPANDING DRUGS William S. Burroughs

6. THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION OF MARIHUANA Dr. Robert Walton

7. CANNABIS: A REFERENCE Dr. William H. McGlothlin

APPENDIX

1. THE QUESTION OF CANNABIS
United Nations Economic and Social Council

2. THE MARIHUANA TAX ACT OF 1937

3. PROPAGANDA POSTER OF THE PERIOD