- NEW Facts First on Narcotics: Marihuana
An excerpt from a textbook for schoolchildren written by Dr. John C. Almack and published in 1939. "Indian hemp is a plant that is of little use, and one that the world would be better off without. It should be entirely destroyed."
- NEW The Truth About Marihuana
An article from the May, 1949 issue of Liberty magazine. "[A] group of marihuana smokers were clinically observed listening to a Jack Benny radio program that normally furnished 42 studio laughs. The marijuana-influenced audience laughed 72 times."
- On the Trail of Marihuana: The Weed of Madness
Published in 1939. No wonder they outlawed marijuana - it causes murder, insanity, abortion, and immorality of every kind... and it starts with a single cigarette.
- The New York Times collection
A collection of articles about the dread marihuana published in the New York Times from 1929 through 1937.
- Holiday of Horrors
A vintage drugsploitation comic book in which the hero starts off with marijuana, but moves on to crime, heroin, degeneracy, addiction, madness, prison, murder, and of course, an early grave.
- Marihuana: A cheap and evil girl sets a hopped-up killer against a city
A jpeg image of this pulp paperback's cover illustration.
- Assassin of Youth! Marihuana: Feeding the God Moloch
A jpeg image of a vivid illustration from the height of reefer madness.
- Reefer Club
Subtitled "A daring novel of reefer smoke, reckless thrills, and the wild love of boys and girls of the city streets - the story your children won't dare tell you!" A jpeg image of the paperback's cover illustration.
Marihuana Menaces Youth
From Scientific American, March 1936.
- Marijuana: Assassin of Youth
The U.S. government line on marijuana, from 1937, direct from the original drug czar Harry Anslinger.
- Marahuana - a New Menace
Chapter 23 from Emily F. Murphy's 1922 book The Black Candle.
- The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937
The law that ushered in federal cannabis prohibition in the United States, along with transcripts of the hearings that accompanied passage of the law.
- History of Marihuana Legislation
From The Report of the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse.
- Hemp Around Their Necks
A chapter from prohibitionist Harry Anslinger's book The Murderers: The Story of the Narcotic Gangs."
- Unraveling an American Dilemma: The Demonization of Marihuana
A masters thesis (1995) on the development and history of marijuana prohibition and the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 by John Craig Lupien of Pepperdine University
- Editor's Table (excerpts)
Short bits from Appletons' Journal (1873) concerning the evolving legal attitudes toward drug use and intoxication.
