Miscellaneous early cannabis texts

• "Les Fumeurs de Hadchids"

  A French cartoon by Honoré Daumier from 1845.

• "The Haschish"

  A poem by John Greenleaf Whittier (c. 1853) that compares the intoxicating effects of hashish on hash smokers with those of cotton on apologists for American slavery.

• NEW The Living Corpse

  A curious horror story from the January 1853 edition of Putnam's Magazine in which alcohol, tobacco, cannabis, ether and opium play rôles.

• Hemp

  The entry on hemp from the 1856 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

• NEW Hasheesh and its Smokers and Eaters

  An article about hashish from the 23 October 1858 edition of Scientific American.

• NEW "Hascheesh"

  A poem by Thomas Bailey Aldrich (c. 1861), a contemporary and an artistic fellow of Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

• Hemp

  The entry on hemp from the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

• Indian Hemp (Hashish)

  Chapter 19 of Opium as an International Problem: The Geneva Conferences (1925) by W.W. Willoughby.

• Facts and Fancies About Marihuana

  A fascinating article from the 24 October 1936 edition of The Literary Digest - just before federal prohibition in the United States.

• "Hemp For Victory"

  A transcript of the 1942 United States propaganda film urging American farmers to grow hemp for the war effort.

• Abstract from a Treatise on Hemp

  Published in 1766 to encourage British American Colonists to grow hemp.

• The Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report

  With commentary by Tod Mikuriya.

• Fibre Plants - Hemp

  Excerpts from The Children's Encyclopedia (1909)

• Science and Invention: Our Home Hasheesh Crop

  From the 3 April 1926 edition of Literary Digest.

• Marijuana: Assassin of Youth

  The U.S. government line on marijuana, from 1937, direct from the original drug czar Harry Anslinger.

• New Billion-Dollar Crop

  Hemp, of course. From Popular Mechanics, February 1938.

• The LaGuardia Committee Report

  The 1944 report of the Mayor's Committee on Marihuana.

• The History of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937

  by Dr. David F. Musto, originally published in 1972.

• Slavery in the Hemp Industry

  Excerpts from A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky (1951) by James F. Hopkins.

• Marijuana in the New World

  Section #54 from The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs (1972) by Edward M. Brecher, et al.

Miscellaneous

• Walter Benjamin: Current Essays & Research

  Includes information on Benjamin's hashish-related research and philosophy.

• Historical Research on Drug Policy

  A web site being run by Cliff Schaffer that contains a number of interesting documents.

• "Marijuana: Medical Papers (1839-1972)"

  Excerpts from this review of medical research on marijuana in the west, including links to many of the source documents.

• Victorian Tales of Cannabis

  An audio tape produced by Sound Photosynthesis featuring Terence McKenna and Kathleen Harrison reading the works of Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Bayard Taylor, Louisa May Alcott and Richard Burton.

Excerpts from the Indian Hemp Commission Report edited by Tod Mikuriya

A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky by James F. Hopkins

The American Disease : Origins of Narcotic Control by David F. Musto