reefer madness / anti-medical marijuana

THE REEFER MADNESS ERA REEFER MADNESS BOOKS

INDEX OF REEFER MADNESS BOOKS

Dr. Killdare

By definition, it would be a contradiction in terms to list or classify a Reefer Madness book as a work of "Non-Fiction." Thus both genres are group together here simply as "Hard Cover" books; if only to distinguish them from the "Pulp Fiction" or "Dime Store novels" discussed elsewhere. However where appropriate the terms [Fiction] and [Non-Fiction] are used.

Please take note - This Index consists solely of those books that the museum has been able to locate and is in no way shape or form complete. It should be thought of only as a starting point.

1912 - AN ESSAY ON HASHISH By Victor Robinson:
This scarce book records Victor Robinson's self-experimentation with cannabis indica. Robinson was a prolific contributor to the history of medicine. It was written BEFORE marijuana and hashish became legal issues. As such, it is a truly objective evaluation. New York, Medical Review of Reviews, 1912, 1st edition --- Bull, this book is mostly about a hashish party, not ever worth the read. - [Not a reefer madness book] [Non-Fiction]

1929 - BATTLEING THE WOLVES OF SOCIETY by Rowell, Earle Albert
- Not a Reefer Madness book per say, but it shows the beginnings of what would become the Reefer Madness Campagin in the years to come. [Not a Reefer Madness book] [Non-Fiction]

1936 - G-MAN VS. THE RED X By Stephen Slesinger,
This Big Little Book #1147 published by Whitman Publishing Company; Copyright 1936 by Stephen Slesinger, consists of 424 pages. A children's reefer madness companion. [Fiction]

1937 - DOPE ADVENTURES OF DAVID DARE By Rowell, Earle Albert;
Nashville, TN: Southern Publishing Assoc. 1937, Decorative Cloth. Issued. 8vo - over 7ľ" - 9ľ" tall. Front is shows author with opium pipe used to illustrate his lectures. This is a startling expose on how dope and movies have destroyed the world's youth. Photos of narcotics police in action in the Orient and the U.S. Eye-opening accounts of dope addiction and how it gets started. Only 3 or so pages are devoted to Medical Marihuana.

1937 - MARIHUANA CONFERENCE held December 5, 1938, in the United States Bureau of Internal Revenue Building, (Room 3003), Washington, D.C. -- Corp Author(s): United States.; Bureau of Narcotics. [Non-Fiction]

1938 - MARIJUANA: AMERICA'S NEW DRUG PROBLEM, by Robert WALTON NY: Lippincott, [1938]. Hardbound Classic reefer-madness-era treatise on marijuana. An influential work that was the basis for all subsequent book s on the subject, Illustrated with photographs of the marijuana plant, police making busts, dogs on marijuana, crops being harvested, etc. A landmark study [Non-Fiction]

1938 - THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE; AN INDICTMENT by Juanita Hansen and Preston Langley Hickey. Publisher Chicago, Ill., Educational associates [c1938] - Description 6 p l., [9]-86 p. 19 cm. although the author is Janita Hansen (the silent Film star), and great anti-Medical Marihuana Crusadar, it says almost nothing about the use of Medical marihuana. [Not a Reefer Madness Book][Non-Fiction]

1938 - Report of the Eighth Annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems NY: Herald Tribune, New York: 1938 (#1088/1200) 8vo 233pgs. Speeches by Fiorello LaGuardia, Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Moses, Lou Gehrig, John L. Lewis, U.S. History, Marijuana, and many more speakers & topics VG++ (1-1-2)

1938 - PLAIN FACTS FOR YOUNG WOMEN ON MARIJUANA, NARCOTICS, LIQUOR, AND TOBACCO by WOOD-COMSTOCK, Belle MD.; Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing. Reefer-madness-era book for young students describing the dangers of drugs. Includes chapters titled "Maybelle the 'Doper'," and "Marijuana the Assassin." Illustrated with delightful drawings. Part of a series of books from Pacific Press who also published the classic, On the Trail Of Marijuana: The Weed of Madness. A scarce title in the reefer-madness genre. Green cloth-colored boards, 7 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 96 pp., numerous entertaining illustrations (b/w), Now then... This isn't just any Belle Wood-Comstock --- this is Belle Wood-Comstock, M.D. (reminding me once again of the definition of "idiopathic": the doctor's an idiot and the patient's pathetic). (Where's my roach clip? --- OK, continuing now...) Contents: Questions Girls Must Face; Maybelle the "Doper"; What Are Narcotic Drugs?; Marijuana the Assassin; Why Dope is Dangerous; Billions in Aid to Military Thugs in Columbia; To Drink or Not to Drink?; What Alcohol Does Inside; Should Girls and Women Drink?; Alcohol and the Home; Liquor Behind the Steering Wheel; Look Before You Leap; Shall Youth Have Its Fling?; Glands and Cigarettes; Fortunately Second-Hand Smoke Isn't Dangerous; Cigarettes and Adolescence; Women Old Before Their Time; Tobacco and Motherhood; Are Smoking Women Attractive?; Do Cigarettes Calm the Nerves?; Unkind to Your Throat; Shall We Smoke Moderately? "Only a few months ago a twenty-year-old girl stood before a New Jersey court and confessed the slaying of a man, PadronePf(red), from whom she and an eighteen-year-old girl companion had stolen an automobile. Asked how and why she had gotten into a life of crime (this, she confessed, was her third holdup), she declared that the smoking of marijuana cigarettes had led directly to her downfall. Several months before this she had been painfully injured in an automobile accident, and a "boy friend", had given her some "reefer" cigarettes to ease her pain. In a short time she found herself an addict to the drug, hopelessly held in its toils. "Those marijuana cigarettes I smoke made it seem right to steal autos and commit hold-ups," she testified in court. "Of course, in between times I knew I had done wrong: but another marijuana cigarette soon took away all this guilty feeling, and I was ready for another stick-up." So she stood before the law, a confessed murderess, and listened to the district attorney demand the death penalty both for her and for her girl companion. The jury brought in a verdict of "murder in the first degree." Because of her youth, she did not have to go to the electric chair: but a sentence of life behind dark prison walls was the only alternative." Priceless

1939 - THE POISON TRAIL - by William F. Boos, published by Hale, Kushman and Flint (Boston) in 1939, 380 pages, not illustrated. From the jacket flap: One of our best known toxicologists tells us the story of man's constant struggle against his most insidious enemy.…He explodes many generally accepted beliefs, and points out many of the constantly increasing hazards from poisons little known to most of us that surround us in our everyday lives….He tells us of the many ways in which poison is a boon to mankind, and of its use in the different activities that go to make up our civilization. He has fascinating anecdotes and case histories to illustrate the use or the misuse of a large number of poisons. - Chapters include: The Poisons That Surround Us The Ptomaine-Poisoning Fallacy A Chapter for Cannibals [food poisoning] The Bugbear of Botulism From Jenner to Pasteur Death in the Woods Morphine Cocaine and the Marihuana Peril The Cups That Cheer and the Friendly Pipe [alcohol, caffeine, nicotine] Mainly About Monoxide Poison on the Job Of Prussic Acid The Mercier Case Arsenic Murder by Other Poisons The Expert in Court [Non-Fiction]

[1937-1950] - MARIHUANA, ASSASSIN OF YOUTH, FEEDING THE GOD MOLOCH By Robert Devine, - A classic - Published by Northland Publishing Company St Paul, MN [1943] [Non-Fiction]

1944 - MAYOR'S COMMITTEE ON MARIHUANA. THE MARIHUANA PROBLEM IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. Forward by F. H. LaGuardia. Lancaster, PA: The Jacques Cattell Press, [1944]. 8vo, xii + 220pp. The famous Laguardia Report, written entirely by doctors, which systematically dismissed the common condemnations at the time; e.g. that marijuana did not lead to use of other drugs; was not correlated with crime; did not have socially pernicious results; and that "the publicity concerning the catastrophic effects of marihuana smoking in New York City are unfounded." [Non-Fiction]

1946 - WAR WITH THE UNDERWORLD, By Ernest L. Tiffany The Higley Press Butler, Indiana: 12mo 143 pgs, with chapters on "The Marijuana Menace," "The White Slavers," "The Social Evil - Prostitution," "Gambling," "Making a Religion Out of Immorality," and "the Beverage Liquor Traffic." Must reading. Funny as hell. [Non-Fiction]

1948 - MARIHUANA IN LATIN AMERICA: The threat it constitutes. Pablo Osvaldo Wolff. The Linace Press, Inc., Washington DC - A real pack of lies. [Non-Fiction]

1949 - NARCOTICS - Nature's Dangerous Gifts- (rev 1966) (a revised edition of Flight from reality) By Norman Taylor. The first chapter is titled: The Pleasant Assassin" need I say more, note that Harry Anslinger is given a lot of credit for his role in the book [Non-Fiction]

1951 - THE TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS By H.J. Anslinger and William F. Tempkins. [Non-Fiction]

1952 - The Narcotics Menace by Alwyn J. St. Charles
This book comes very late (1952) in the reefer madness era---but it may as well have been written in the 1930's. A whole chapter was devoted to marihuana, the weed of crime.

1952 - INDIAN HEMP, A SOCIAL MENACE: By Johnson, Donald, McL.
Barrister-at-Law Page 1952. 5x7, 112pp. A stuffy chemist-lawyer looks at marijuana. London: Christopher Johnson, 1952. This works purports to be the first book devoted to the dangers of cannabis in England. Among the startling assertions made by the author is that the famous attack of illness in Pont Saint Esprit in 1951 was cannabis-induced rather than egotism. He also speculates that the confessions of Russians during Stalin's purges were drug-induced. 8vo, 112pp. [Non-Fiction]

1956 - VIPER: CONFESSIONS OF A DRUG ADDICT By Robert Hale Thorp, Raymond. Viper: the Confessions of a Drug Addict. London Robert Hale Limited 1956. A crummy book, not worth reading.

1956 Merchants of misery - by J. A. Buckwalter Pub: - Pacific Press Publishing Association Mountain View, Ca. High School Text Book - (intended for teachers and parents)
A latter day, reefer madness era (copyright 1956) book originally meant as a resource, on narcotics in general, for high school teachers, librarian's etc. In fact it is surprising, given its late publication date, that such a book would still be using language like" -- "A person under the influence of marijuana is exposed to the unpredictable effects of *** Because of this vicious tendency experienced by some, it has been called the 'Killer drug.'" -- And although, only a few pages are devoted exclusively to marihuana, reference to it can be found throughout the book. All the old myths are there also, the Assassin's myths, the "marihuana distorts your sense of time myth, the marihuana as a starter drug myth etc. -- Be prepare for terms like, "The Marihuana Addict," instead of "The Medical Marihuana Patient" etc. [Non-Fiction]

1961 - THE MURDERERS, THE STORY OF THE NARCOTIC GANGS: H. J. Anslinger and Will Obrsler [Non-Fiction]

The following is the museums’ Index of Reefer Madness era books that the museum has NOT SEEN but would like to obtain copies of. Note: Because we have not seen them, there is a possibility that they may not be Reefer madness books at all. We are depending only on descriptions provided to us by others.

CHARLIE CHAN: DRAMA AT THE CROWN CIRCUS
-- DAILIES AND SUNDAYS 1/15/40-3/20/40 -- After serving an apprenticeship under Milton Caniff, young Alfred Andriola got his own strip--a daily/Sunday mystery adventure based on Earl Derr Biggers' popular Hawaiian-Chinese detective, Charlie Chan. Or rather, on Charlie's movie interpretation: Chan in this strip bears a strong resemblance to actor Warner Oland, who portrayed Charlie in a string of successful B-pictures. -- Andriola did good work on the series, writing brisk, entertaining stories and illustrating them with a handsome variation on his mentor's "Caniff-Sickles school" style. Pacific Comics Club has reprinted this collection from 1940. -- In "Drama at the Crown Circus," a murderous marijuana-pushing clown figures he's smart enough to outwit Chan. We know where that gets him! -- 6" x 9" 48-page book prints dailies and Sunday pages in black-and-white. Softbound, 2-color cover. [The museum has been able to obtain some of the original newspaper artwork from the 1940's, however it is not complete]

1922 - The Black Candle, by Murphy, Emily F
This is the book that inspired Canada's drug war of the 1920's. 405 pp., photos, index, 8vo Index. B/W photographs of opium dens, drug addicts, and paraphernalia seized by police. 8vo. Orange cloth decorated w/picture of an opium pipe. The author was Police Magistrate and Judge of the Juvenile Court in Edmonton, Canada. She writes about drug addiction and drug trafficking in Canada. Graphic, artistic cover also has illustrations of a person smoking drugs and a body being carried by black figures. Book is in fine condition, like new, with clean, bright, immaculate covers; tight, solid hinges; and crisp, clean, bright white pages. "The Black Candle, which now may be dismissed as grim humor or condemned outright as propaganda, was a landmark both in the life of its crusading author and in the history of Canadian drug legislation." This edition, a facsimile of the original 1922 publication, is a reprint of Canada's first book on drug abuse. A clean, attractive, near-new book, this historical treasure of an early Canadian perspective would be an attractive and desirable addition to any library.

1933 - "In the Land of the Hashishin, By STARK, Freya. the Sect who gave the word "Assassin" to the World. Article extracted from The Illustrated London News, 9 Sep.1933. 1933. First printing of a colorful account of the famous Persian covert operator and hashish savant, whose success at drug-induced mind control has fascinated Westerners from Marco Polo to William S. Burroughs. The author of the article later developed its themes in her bestselling book, Valley of the Assassins. 2 folio pp. printed in triple columns with 6 photo-illustrations showing Mt. Alamut and the remains of Hassan-i-Sabbah's nearly inaccessible fortress.

1935 - UNION of SOUTH AFRICA: Government publications: Dagga smoking, Annual Report of the South Africa Department of Public Health, Pretoria, 1934-1935, 35, pages 65-66. Title: Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Abuse of Dagga Author: South Africa
DC LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DLC
IL NORTHWESTERN UNIV INU
MA HARVARD UNIV, BOTANY LIBR BOH
VA DILLWYN CORR CTR, DCE LIBR OL@
VA DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMIN LIBR DEE
ZZ NATAL SOC LIBR Z6B
ZZ NWU: POTCHEFSTROOMKAMPUS Y@Y
ZZ UNIV OF CAPE TOWN OI@
Title: Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on the Abuse of Dagga. Corp Author(s): South Africa.; Inter-Departmental Committee on the Abuse of Dagga. Publication: Pretoria : Govt. Printer, Year: 1952 Description: vi, 48 p. : ill. ; 33 cm. Standard No: LCCN: 95-172566 Note(s): "U.G. no. 31/1952." Class Descriptors: LC: HV5822.M3 Material Type: Government publication (gpb); National government publication (ngp) OCLC: 33405040

1937 - Regulations no. 1 relating to the importation, manufacture, production, compounding, sale, dealing in, dispensing, prescribing, administering, and giving away of marihuana under the act of August 2, 1937, Public no. 238, 75th Congress : narcotic-internal revenue regulations : joint marihuana regulations Author: United States Libraries with Item: "
CO UNIV OF DENVER, PENROSE LIBR DVP
DC CAPLIN & DRYSDALE DQS
IL UNIV OF CHICAGO CGU
MA HARVARD UNIV, BOTANY LIBR BOH
MD NATIONAL INST ON DRUG ABUSE, ADDICTION HNN
MI WALSH COL OF ACCOUNTANCY & BUS ADMIN EVG
MO SAINT LOUIS UNIV, LAW LIBR SLU
MO WASHINGTON UNIV, LAW LIBR WUL
NY COLUMBIA UNIV ZCU
NY COLUMBIA UNIV, HEALTH SCI ZCH
OH BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIV BGU
OH CLEVELAND HEALTH SCI LIBR CHS
OH OHIO WESLEYAN UNIV OWU
PA COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS OF PHILADELPHIA PPC
PA UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PIT
Title: Regulations no. 1 relating to the importation, manufacture, production, compounding, sale, dealing in, dispensing, prescribing, administering, and giving away of marihuana under the act of August 2, 1937, Public no. 238, 75th Congress : narcotic-internal revenue regulations : joint marihuana regulations / Corp Author(s): United States. Bureau of Narcotics. ; United States.; Office of Internal Revenue. Publication: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., Year: 1937 Description: vi, 64 p. ; 24 cm. "Effective date, October 1, 1937."/ Includes index. Accession No: OCLC: 19837251

1937 - FIFTY STRANGEST STORIES EVER TOLD
CA UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE CRU
AZ UNIV OF ARIZONA AZU
CO UNIV OF COLORADO AT BOULDER COD
GA UNIV OF GEORGIA GUA
LA LOUISIANA STATE UNIV LUU
TX UNIV OF TEXAS, AUSTIN, HARRY RANSOM HRH
Publication: London : Odhams Press, Year: 1937 Description: 704 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Contents: One of the stories is Smuggling hashish / Henry de Monfried -- Note(s): Date of publication from BLC. Class Descriptors: LC: PR1309.H6 Material Type: Fiction (fic) - OCLC: 3308927

1938 - SMOKING AND OTHER HABITS, THEIR EFFECT AND CURES; Medical and Scientific Discussion of the Tobacco, Alcohol, Marijuana and Opium Habits by Wood, Frank Leighton Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1938 Printed Wraps. Fine. 1st. Edition. 68 p,

1939 - MODERN POLICE WORK INCL DETECTIVE DUTY VINTAGE 1939 A Book for Police Officers of ALL RANKS - National in Scope By James J. Skehan retired Captain NYPD & Former Instructor - R. V. Basuino Brooklyn, NY Publisher - Illustrations include: Growing Marihuana -- Sketching ( a crime scene) Fingerprint patterns -- Hair characteristics

1939 - LA MARIHUANA; ESTUDIO MÉDICO Y SOCIAL
CA CLAREMONT COL HDC
CA UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES CLU
AZ UNIV OF ARIZONA AZU
IL UNIV OF ILLINOIS UIU
MD NATIONAL LIBR OF MED NLM
NY NEW YORK PUB LIBR RES LIBR NYP
VA DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMIN LIBR DEE
EU WELLCOME INST EUW
MX UNIV AUTONOMA DE CIUDAD JUAREZ DQ$
Title: La marihuana; estudio médico y social. - Author(s): Segura Millán, Jorge. - Publication: México, Editorial Cultura, Year: 1939 - Description: 161 p. illus. Language: Spanish - Standard No: National Library: 0101546 - Note(s): Microfilmed for preservation. - Class Descriptors: LC: HV5822.M3; NLM: WM 276; Film 7286 no. 3 - Document Type: Book OCLC: 12710967
or
MARIHUANA : A MEDICAL AND SOCIAL STUDY Author: Segura Millán, Jorge
VA DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMIN LIBR DEE
Publication: [S.l. : s.n., - Year: 1939 - Description: ii [i.e. iv], 109, IV p. ; 27 cm. -- Language: English - Note(s): "Translation of Marijuana a Medial ans Social Study, Cultura Publishing House, Mexico, D.F., 1939."/ Chapter 8, "Legal Problem of Marihuana" not translated. - Class Descriptors: LC: RC568.C2 - Other Titles: Marijuana a medical ans social study - Responsibility: Jorge Segura Millan ... [et al.] .. translated by O. Schwarz. - OCLC: 53948714

1939 - CHOPRA, R. N.; CHOPRA, G. S.: The Present Position of Hemp-Drug Addiction in India (a pamphlet) Indian Medical Résearch Memorandum No. 31, Calcutta, 1939, pages 1-119. [Non-Fiction]

1940 - MARIJUANA MYSTERY Author: Stimson, Mary Sturdivant
DC LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LNN
NY NEW YORK PUB LIBR RES LIBR NYP
TX SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIV SHH Author(s): Stimson, Mary Sturdivant, 1897- Publication: Philadelphia : Dorrance, Year: 1940 - Description: 234 p. ; 20 cm. - Material Type: Fiction (fic) - OCLC: 20376680

1941 - COMPOUNDS OF THE CANNABINOL TYPE Author: Bembry, Thomas Henry
CA UNIV OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY CUY
CT YALE UNIV LIBR YUS
DC LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LNN
IL UNIV OF ILLINOIS UIU
NY COLUMBIA UNIV ZCU
NY NEW YORK PUB LIBR RES LIBR NYP
ZZ MINISTERIO DE EDUCACION, SIU C$E Publication: New York City, Year: 1941 Description: 38, [3] p. 23 cm. Note(s): Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1941./ Vita./ "Appendix: ... Marihuana activity of cannabinol types": p. [41]/ Bibliography: p. [39] Responsibility: by Thomas Henry Bembry. OCLC: 26990928

1941 - SOME PLAIN FACTS ABOUT THE UNDERWORLD AND DOPE : startling revelations about the use and addiction of cocaine, morphine, marijuana, cigarettes, opium, alcohol Author: Locy-West, Essie Binkley
VA DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMIN LIBR DEE
Author(s): Locy-West, Essie Binkley. Publication: [Glendale, Calif.? : White Tabernacle?], Year: 1941 Description: 52 cm. : ill. ; 20 cm. Language: English Class Descriptors: LC: HV5801 Other Titles: About 'pal' of the underworld : dope; Underworld and dope Responsibility: by Essie Binkley Locy-West. OCLC: 57487578

1945 - CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION: War Department Field Manual FM 19-20 Wash.D.C.:USGPO, April 1945. Early Edition. Includes photographs of marijuana plants, narcotics hiding places, a list of criminal argot. 358 pages, index, photographs.

1950 - THE DARK ADVENTURE by Howard Pease
Garden City: Doubleday A mystery of a teenager suffering from amnesia after an automobile accident who must rediscover his past, and one of the earliest young adult titles to deal in drug trafficking and addiction ("marihuana"). Described by the author as "a story of California's hot-rod gangs of high school students; an up-to-the-minute picture of teen-agers on the prowl."

1956 - THE BOOK OF POISONS By Schenk, Gustav London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7ľ" - 9ľ" tall. Light green cloth with gilt titles on spine. 235 pages.

1969- THE MOVEMENT TO RESTORE DECENCY The Pied Pipers / Pot, Rock & Revolution: The Complete Texts, with Footnotes, of Both of These Full-Color, 35-mm. Filmstrips on the Drug Epidemic That Is Destroying the Youth of America Belmont, Mass. & San Marino, Calif.: MOTOREDE, ca. 1969 Wraps. 24 p .Slightly hysterical vision of America threatened by a strange amalgam of sensitivity training, drugs, suggestive rock lyrics, SIECUS, Charles Manson, the "S.D.S. militant Weatherman group" who make bombs "in the nude," Anton La Vey, etc. The authors warn: "Our peril is very great. This country has never had such a challenge. The western world has not seen such a malignant destructive force since the last plague in Europe"

1970 - MIND DRUGS By Hyde, Margaret O.-- (straight answers to the most often asked questions about) New York Pocket #77125 1970. The book's a joke--as much relevance as the movie "Reefer Madness"; try smoking a doobie while reading it: a laugh riot!.

1971 MARIJUANA : TEENAGE KILLER By Hill, Norman (Editor) Here is the book that cuts through the myths, that takes up where the others leave off, that tells you the real truth about - White paperback cover with photofront.

Books that (while sounding right) are NOT Reefer Madness and the Museum is not interested in them:

NARCOTIC AGENT Author: Helbrant, Maurice Author(s): Helbrant, Maurice. - Publication: New York, The Vanguard press Year: 1941 Description: viii, 319 p. 21 cm. by Maurice Helbrant ("Colonel Smokey")