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High Culture:

  Marijuana in the Lives of Americans

    by William Novak

      Selected Bibliography


ABEL, ERNEST L. "Retrieval of Information After Use of Marihuana." Nature 231 (1971): 58.

---. "Effects of Marihuana on the Solution of Anagrams, Memory and Appetite." Nature 231 (1971): 260-61.

---. "Marihuana and Memory: Acquisition or Retrieval?" Science 173 (1971): 1038-40

ALDRICH, MICHAEL R. A Brief History of Marijuana. (Presented to the Western Institute of Drug Problems Marijuana Conference, Portland, Oregon, 7 August 1971.)

---. "Tantric Cannabis Use in India." Journal of Psychedelic Drugs 9:3 (July-September 1977): 227-33

ANDREWS, GEORGE, and VINKENOOG, SIMON, eds. The Book of Grass: An Anthology of Indian Hemp. New York: Grove Press, 1968.

ANSLINGER, HARRY J., and TOMPKINS, W. F. The Traffic in Narcotics. New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1953.

ARTAMONOV, M. I. "Frozen Tombs of the Scythians." Scientific American 212 (May 1965): 100-110

BARRETT, LEONARD E. The Rastafarians. Boston: Beacon Press, 1977.

BECKER, HOWARD S. "Becoming a Marihuana User." American Journal of Sociology 59 (1953): 235-42 Reprinted in Outsiders.

---. "Consciousness, Power and Drug Effects." Journal of Psychedelic Drugs 6: I ( January-March 1974): 67-76.

---. "History, Culture and Subjective Experience: An Exploration of the Social Bases of Drug-Induced Experiences." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 8:3 (September 1967): 163-76.

---. "Marihuana Use and the Social Context." Social Problems 3 (1955): 35-44.

---. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. New York: The Free Press, 1963.

BENNETT, DIANNE "Marihuana Use Among College Students and Street People." Senior Honors Thesis, Harvard University, 1970.

BERKE, JOSEPH, and HERNTON, CALVIN C. The Cannabis Experience: An Interpretive Study of the Effects of Marijuana and Hashish. London: Peter Owen, 1974.

BLUM, DAVID "Marijuana Therapy." The New Republic, 16 September 1978, pp. 6-7

BLUM, RICHARD H., and Associates. Students and Drugs. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1969.

BONNIE, RICHARD H., and WHITEBREAD, CHARLES H. The Marihuana Conviction: A History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States. Charlottesville: Virginia University Press, 1974.

BRAUDE, MONIQUE C., and SZARA, STEPEIEN, eds. Pharmacology of Marijuana. 2 vol. New York: Raven Press, 1976.

BRECHER, EDWARD M., and the editors of Consumer Reports. Licit and Illicit Drugs. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972.

BROMBERG, W. "Marihuana, A Psychiatric Study." Journal of the American Medical Association 113 ( 1939): 4-12.

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. Points of Distinction Between Sedative and Consciousness-Expanding Drugs." Evergreen Review, December 1964. Reprinted in part in Andrews and Vinkenoog, The Book of Grass, pp. 207-8.

CAPPELL, HOWARD D., and PLINER, PATRICIA L. Volitional Control of Marijuana Intoxication: A Study of the Ability to 'Come Down' on Command." Journal of Abnormal Psychology 82:3 (1973): 428-34.

---, et al. "Some Correlates of Marihuana Self-Administration in Man: A Study of Titration of Intake as a Function of Drug Potency." Psychopharmacologia 29 (1973): 177-84.

---, and PLINER, PATRICIA L. Regulation of the Self-Administration of Marihuana by Psychological and Pharmacological Variables ." Psychopharmacologia 40 (1974): 65-76.

CARR, ROBERT. "What Marijuana Does (And Doesn't Do)." Human Behavior, January 1978.

CHERNIAK, LAURENCE. The Great Books of Hashish. Vol. 1 of 9 vols. Berkeley, Cal.: And/Or Press, 1979.

CLARK, WALTER HOUSTON. "The Relationship Between Drugs and Religious Experience." The Catholic Psychological Record 6:2 (Fall 68): 146-55.

---. Chemical Ecstasy: Psychedelic Drugs and Religion. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969

COHEN, SIDNEY. The Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana. New York: Plenum Pub., 1976.

---. "Marijuana as Medicine." Psychology Today, April 1978.

DARLEY, C. F. et al. "Influence of Marihuana on Storage and Retrieval Processes in Memory." Memory and Cognition 1 (1973): 196-200.

---. "Marijuana Effects on Long-Term Memory Assessment and Retrieval. "Psychopharmacologia 52 (1977): 239-41.

Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Annual Reports to Congress. Marihuana and Health. Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975

DE ROPP, ROBERT S. Drugs and the Mind. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1957 Revised edition, Delta Books, 1976.

DOWDY, JOHN. "Spice Valley, U.S.A.: Marijuana Moonshiners." Atlantic Monthly, January 1979, pp. 6-24.

DRAKE, WILLIAM DANIEL, JR. The Connoisseur's Handbook of Marijuana. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1971.

EBIN, DAVID, ed. The Drug Experience. New York: Grove Press, 1961.

FORT, JOEL. The Pleasure Seekers: The Drug Crisis, Youth and Society. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.

FRANK, MEL, and ROSENTHAL, ED. Marijuana Grower's Guide (Deluxe Edition). Berkeley, Cal.: And/Or Press, 1978.

GINSBERG, ALLEN. "First Manifesto to End the Bringdown." In The Marihuana Papers, edited by David Solomon. New York, 1966.

GOLDAIAN, ALBERT Entering the New Age of Pot. New York, 25 August 1971, pp. 28-41.

---. Grass Roots: Marijuana in America Today. New York: Harper and Row, 1979.

GOODE, ERICH, ed. Marijuana. New York: Atherton Press, 1969.

---. Drugs in American Society. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972.

---. The Marijuana Smokers. New York: Basic Books, 1970.

GOTTLIEB, ADAM. Cooking With Cannabis. Berkeley, Cal.: And/Or Press, 1978.

GRINSPOON, LESTER Marihuana Reconsidered. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971. Revised edition, 1977.

HARDING, WAYNE, and ZINBERG, NORMAN E. The Effectiveness of the Subculture in Developing Rituals and Social Sanctions for Controlled Drug Use." In Drugs, Rituals and Altered States of Consciousness, edited by Brian Du Toit. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema, 1977.

HELLMAN, ARTHUR D. Laws Against Marijuana: The Price We Pay. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1975.

HOCHMAN, JOEL. Marijuana and Social Evolution. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972.

HOLLISTER, LEO E. "Hunger and Appetite After Single Doses of Marihuana, Alcohol, and Dextroamphetamine." Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics 12:1 (January-February 1971): 44.

et al. "Marihuana and Setting." Archives of General Psychiatry 32 (1975): 798-801.

HOPKINS, J. F. A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1951.

HORMAN, RICHARD E., and Fox, ALLAN, eds. Drug Awareness: Key Documents on LSD, Marijuana, and the Drug Culture. New York: Avon Books, 1970.

HOYE, DAVID. Cannabis Alchemy. Manhattan Beach, Cal., 1973.

---, ed. Hasheesh: The Herb Dangerous. San Francisco: Level Press, 1974.

HUXLEY, ALDOUS. The Doors of Perception. New York: Harper Bros., 1954.

INGLIS, BRIAN The Forbidden Game: A Social History of Drugs. New York: Scribners, 1975.

JOHNSON, BRUCE D. Marijuana Users and Drug Subcultures. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1973.

JONES, REESE T. "Marihuana-Induced 'High': Influence of Expectation, Setting and Previous Drug Experience." Pharmacological Reviews 23:4 (1971): 359-69

KALANT, ORIANA JOSSEAU. Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4: A Critical Review." International Journal of the Addictions 7:1 (1972):77-96.

KAMSTRA, JERRY. Weed: Adventures of a Dope Smuggler. New York: Harper and Row, 1974 Paperback: Bantam, 1974.

KAPLAN, JOHN. Marihuana: The New Prohibition. New York: World Publishing Co., 1970.

---. Introduction and glossary, Marijuana: Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-4. Silver Spring, Md.: Thomas Jefferson Publishing Co., 1969.

KIMMENS, DAVID C., ed. Tales of Hashish: A Literary Look at the Hashish Experience. New York: Morrow, 1977.

KLONOFF, HARRY. "The Phenomenology of the Marihuana User." Canadian Journal of Public Health 64 (November-December 1973): 552-61.

---. "Marijuana and Driving in Real-Life Situations." Science 186 (1974): 317-24.

--- and CLARK, C. "Drug Patterns in the Chronic Marijuana User." The International Journal of the Addictions 11:1 (1976): 71-80.

LEARY, TIMOTHY F. The Politics of Ecstasy. New York: Putnam, l968.

Le Dain Commission. A Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs. Ottawa: Information Canada, 1974.

LILLIEFORS, JIM. "Dope and the Running High." High Times, March 1979, pp. 14-lS

LIPSKY, JON. "Summer Is Icummen In, Llude Sing Cuckoo." The Real Paper, 9 May 1974, pp. 10-12.

LLOYD, PAMELA. The Book of Pot. New York: A & W Visual Library, 1976.

LODZER, ITZIK "Notes from the Jewish Underground: Psychedelics and Kabbalah ." Response 2: 1 ( Winter 1968): 9-21.

LUDLOW, FITZ HUGH The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagoreun. New York: Harper and Bros., 1857.

MARGOLIS, JACK S., and CLORFENE, RICHARD. A Child's Garden of Grass: The Official Handbook for Marijuana Users. North Hollywood, Cal.: Contact Books, 1969. Reprinted, New York: Pocket Books, 1970. Revised edition, New York: Pocket Books, 1975.

Mayor's Committee on Marihuana. The Marihuana Problem in the City of New York. Lancaster, Pa.: Jaques Cattell Press, 1944.

MECHOULAM, RAPHAEL Marihuana Chemistry. Science 168 (1970): 1159-66.

---, ed. Marijuana: Chemistry, Pharmacology, Metabolism and Clinical Effects. New York: Academic Press, 1973.

MELGES, F. T., et al. "Marihuana and Temporal Disintegration." Science 168 (1970): 1118-20.

--- et al. "Temporal Disintegration and Depersonalization During Marihuana Intoxication." Archives of General Psychiatry 23 (1970): 204-lo.

MENDELSON, JACK H., ROSSIE, A. MICHAEL, and MEYER, ROGER E., eds. The Use of Marihuana: A Psychological and Physiological Inquiry. New York: Plenum Pub., 1974.

MEZZROW, MILTON, and WOLFE, BERNARD. Really the Blues. New York: Random House, 1946

MICHAUX, HENRI Light Through Darkness. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. New York: Orion Press, 1961.

MIKURIYA, TOD H. "Historical Aspects of Cannabis Sativa in Western Medicine." The New Physician, November 1969, pp. 902-8.

---, ed. Marijuana: Medical Papers, 1893-1972. Oakland: Medi Comp Press, 1973.

MILLER, L. L., ed. Marijuana: Effects on Human Behavior. New York: Academic Press, 1974.

MIRIN, S. M., et al. "Casual Versus Heavy Use of Marijuana: A Redefinition of the Marijuana Problem." American Journal of Psychiatry 117:9 (March 1971): 1134-40

National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse. Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972.

National Institute on Drug Abuse. National Survey on Drug Abuse, 1977. Rockville, Md.

O'CONNOR, RORY "Rx Marijuana: How the Government Thwarts the Use of Grass as Medicine." The Real Paper, 25 March 1978, pp. l1-18.

PERRY, CHARLES. Pot and Politics: NORML leads a Grass Roots Crusade." Rolling Stone, 10 August 1978, p. 35.

PHALEN, J. M. "The Marihuana Bugaboo." Military Surgeon 93 (1943): 94-5

PILLARD, RICHARD C. Medical Progress: Marihuana. New England Journal of Medicine 283 (6 August 1970): 294-303.

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"R., Dope Connoisseur," "Interview with a Dope Taster." High Times, Spring 1975, pp- 12-14

---. "Thai: The Dope of the Eighties?" High Times, May 1978, pp. 38-39

---. "Bring Back Mexican." High Times, June 1978, pp. 36-37.

---. "Vintage Colombian Tasting." High Times, July 1978, pp. 38-39.

---. "High Energy." High Times, August 1978, pp. 23-24.

---. "Talking Sense About Sinsemilla." High Times, September 8. pp. 24-25.

---. "Four Theories of Marijuana and Sex." High Times, October 8, pp. 24-25

---. "The Myth of the Munchies and the Dope Smoker's Diet." High Times, December 1978, pp. 28-29.

---. "What Do You Call This Stuff?" High Times, March 1979, pp.18-1g

---. "Hawaiian: The Great Dope Hope." High Times, April 1979, pp. 18-19

---. "Now You're Cooking With Grass." High Times, May 1979, pp. 20-21.

RICHARDSON, JIM, and WOODS, ARIK. Sinsemilla: Marijuana Flowers. Berkeley, Cal.: And/Or Press, 1976.

RINDER, IRWIN D. "The Effects of Marijuana: A Social Psychological Interpretation." Psychiatry 41 (May 1978): 202-6.

ROSENTHAL, ED. "Why Dope Gets You High." High Times, February 1979, p. 21

ROSENTHAL, FRANZ. The Herb: Hashish versus Medieval Muslim Society. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1971.

RUBIN, VERA, ed. Cannabis and Culture. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 975.

--- and CONIITAS, LAMBROS. Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1975. Paperback: Anchor Books, 1976.

SCHOFIELD, MICHAEL. The Strange Case of Pot. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1971.

SCHULTES, RICHARD EVANS, et al. "Cannabis: An Example of Taxonomic Neglect." In Rubin, Cannabis and Culture.

---. "Man and Marijuana." Natural History 80-81 (August-September 1973): 59-63

SLOMAN, LARRY. Reefer Madness: The History of Marijuana in America. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1979.

SMITH, DAVID E. "The Acute and Chronic Toxicity of Marijuana." Journal of Psychedelic Drugs 2 (1968): 37-47

---, ed. The New Social Drug: Cultural, Medical and Legal Perspectives on Marijuana. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970.

SNYDER, SOLOMON H. Uses of Marijuana. New York: Oxford University Press, 1971.

SOLOMON, DAVID, ed. The Marihuana Papers. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966.

STAFFORD, PETER Psychedelics Encyclopedia. Berkeley, Cal.: And/Or Press, 1977.

STARKS, MICHAEL. Marijuana Potency. Berkeley, Cal.: And/Or- Press, 1977

STAUFFER, ROBERT B. The Role of Drugs in Political Change. New York: General Learning Press, 1971.

STEPANIAN, MICHAEL. Pot Shots. New York: Dell, 1972.

STILLNIAN, R. C., ed. The Therapeutic Potential of Marihuana. New York: Plenum Pub., 1976.

TART, CHARLES T. On Being Stoned: A Psychological Study of Marijuana Intoxication. Palo Alto, Cal.: Science and Behavior Books, 1971.

--- and KVETENSKY. "Marijuana Intoxication: Feasibility of Experiential Scaling of Level." Journal of Altered States of Consciousness: l (Fall 1973): 15-21

--- . "Marijuana Intoxication: Common Experiences." Nature 226 (23 May 1970): 701-4

---, ed. Altered States of Consciousness. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1969. Paperback: Anchor Books, 1972

"The Colombian Connection." Time, 29 January 1979, pp. 22-29.

"The Effects of Marijuana on Consciousness." In Altered States of Consciousness, edited by Charles T. Tart. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1969, pp. 343-66.

TINKLENBERG, JARED R., ed. Marijuana and Health Hazards: Methodological Issues in Current Research. New York: Academic Press, 1975.

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WALLER, COY W., et al. Marihuana: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Macmillan,1976.

WALTON, ROBERT P. Marihuana, America s New Drug Problem. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1938.

WATTS, ALAN W. The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness. New York: Random House, 1965.

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WEIL, ANDREW T. The Natural Mind: A New Way of Looking at Drugs and the Higher Consciousness. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972.

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--- and ZINBERG, NORMAN E. Acute Effects of Marihuana on Speech." Nature 222 (1969): 434-37.

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"Where the Grass is Greener." Time, 12 June 1978.

ZINBERG, NORMAN E. "Marijuana and Sex." New England Journal of Medicine 291 (1974): 309-10.

---. "The War Over Marijuana." Psychology Today, December 1976.

---, ed. Alternate States of Consciousness: Multiple Perspectives on the Study of Consciousness. New York: The Free Press, 1977.

--- and JACOBSON, RICHARD C. The Natural History of Chipping. American Journal of Psychiatry 133:1 (January 1976): 37-40.

--- and ROBERTSON, JOHN A. Drugs and the Public. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972.

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Acknowledgments

Harvard University Press: Excerpts from Marijuana Reconsidered by Lester Grinspoon. Published by Harvard University Press. Reprinted by permission.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: Excerpts from Drugs in American Society by Erich Goode. Copyright 1972 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Reprinted by permission .

John Lipsky: Excerpts from "Stoned Games," appearing in Real Paper, May 1974. Copyright 1974 by John Lipsky.

Harold Matson Company, Inc.: Excerpts from Really the Blues by Milton Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. Copyright 1946 by Milton Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe. Copyright renewed 1974 by Bernard Wolfe. Reprinted by permission of the Harold Matson Company, Inc.

"R": Excerpts from articles by "R" written for High Times, Spring 1975, June 1978, May 1978, and December 1978. All articles copyrighted in the name of the author, and used by permission.


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