Reefer madness : the history of marijuana in America / Larry "Ratso" Sloman ; introduction by William S. Burroughs ; afterword by Michael Simmons.
Sloman, Larry.
1998
HV5822.M3 S54 1998 (Mapit)
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Title Reefer madness : the history of marijuana in America / Larry "Ratso" Sloman ; introduction by William S. Burroughs ; afterword by Michael Simmons.
Author Sloman, Larry.
Edition 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
ISBN 0312195230 (pbk.)
9780312195236 (pbk.)
Imprint New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 1998.
Language English
Description xiii, 447 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Call Number HV5822.M3 S54 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.29/5/0973
Summary From the Publisher: Reefer Madness, a classic in the annals of hemp literature, is the popular social history of marijuana use in America. Beginning with the hemp farming if George Washington, author Larry "Ratso" Sloman traces the fascinating story of our nation's love-hate relationship with the resilient weed we know as marijuana. Herein we find antiheroes such as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Mitchum (the first Hollywood actor busted for pot), Louis Armstrong (who smoked pot every day), the Beatles, and more rapscallions standing up for, supporting, smoking, and politicizing the bounties of marijuana. With a new afterword by Michael Simmons, who has written for Rolling Stone, LA Weekly, and High Times, on the progress of the hemp movement and the importance of medical marijuana, Reefer Madness is a classic that goes on.
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ch. 1. Early heads
ch. 2. Killer weed heads north: enter Mr. Anslinger
ch. 3. Bureau responds
ch. 4. Gore file
ch. 5. Marihuana Tax Act hearings of 1937
ch. 6. Mighty mezz and the Brooklyn kid
ch. 7. Bureau retreats
ch. 8. Marijuana finds a voice
ch. 9. Jazz musicians' pogrom
ch. 10. Little flower meets the Swedish angel
ch. 11. Allen Ginsberg versus the Moloch Bureau
ch. 12. Gumshoe remembers Harry
ch. 13. Mary Warner leaves the ghetto
ch. 14. Short vacation in Hollidaysburg
ch. 15. Smoke, dolling, smoke
ch. 16. Amotivational in suburbia
ch. 17. Dealer's lament
ch. 18. Only semi-legal pothead in America
ch. 19. Cottage industry
ch. 20. Aborted pie-kill
ch. 21. Jack Cohen is normal
ch. 22. Man behind the pie
ch. 23. Old guard retreats
ch. 24. Moloch revisited
ch. 25. Pendulum swings back
ch. 26. In the bunker with the last straight in America
ch. 27. Ambush at the Calvert Café.

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