David Solomon (editor)

  • THE MARIJUANA PAPERS: An Examination of Marijuana in Society, History and Literature
hbk: ?
pbk: ?, US, 1966,,, Panther Modern Society, UK, 1969 (revised edition)

ISBN 586-02884-6 (UK pbk, 1970)

non-fiction, marijuana, psychedelics, neurologic, counterculture, social history, culture, 1960s, William S.Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary, Paul Bowles, Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Stephen Abrams


Contents


"In recent years, the use of marijuana by growing numbers of people in all walks of life has become one of the most burningly controversial issues with which our society has come face to face. Yet, in spite of the continual furore in the Press, on TV and on the radio, most people probably know little if anything of the marijuana facts -- its effects, history and pharmacology -- as distinct from the marijuana myths.

"What exactly is its relationship to sex? To violence? To crime? To addiction? Is it really harmful? Or perhaps beneficial? What and where are its sources? To these and many more questions, the doctors, scientists, sociologists and writers in this volume (the first paperback of such scope to appear in Britain) provide illuminating answers backed with a wealth of evidence.

"Quite simply, this book is indispensable to anyone who wishes to inform himself on marijuana. David Soloman has collected much more than we expect to find in one volume. Here is the 'LaGuardia Report', the scholarship of W.H.McGlothin, a pioneering sociological effort by Professor Howard S.Becker, and much else, from Rabelais to a magnificent prose high by Allen Ginsberg...Within the covers of one paperback are to be found, I think, all the significant references to the subject, up to 1969." --R.D.Laing [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1970].


"This extraordinary competent source book on the use, history and pharmacology of Indian hemp reads like a principal volume in a Secret History of Civilization." --Alan Watts Ph.D. (President of the Society for Comparative Philosophy).

Highly recommended.




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  • Psychedelics / Altered States
  • Social History
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  • Utopia

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