Seasons in the Psychotropics

A Haphazard Annotated List of Information Sources on Mind-Altering Drugs and the Dope Wars

(Part 1 of 4 [A-C]) by Gary Stimeling

 

Copyright 2005 Psychotropics Cornucopia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

— Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian satirist and poet

 

PART 1 OF 4 [A-C]

 

With the exception of a very few classics, I’ve limited this list to sources in English. The emphasis is on books, with only a few journal articles, primarily on historical and cultural topics. Except for a few studies of consciousness, I’ve included only items that are entirely concerned with drugs. Thus I’ve omitted many that include famous and important passages, especially those that have been anthologized. I’ve tried to limit this list to serious (but not always solemn) writing on the psychoactives per se, along with a few of the more enlightened volumes on addiction and a few of the most influential suppressionist screeds.

A well selected drug bibliography listed by category is available online at http://www.a1b2c3.com/free/aaa_aaa/dru_amz1.htm.

Hakim Bey’s and Abel Zug’s Orgies of the Hemp Eaters (cited below) includes a 178-page cannabis bibliography/netography that is not merely annotated but actually constitutes an anthology within the anthology, a collection of quotes and excerpts from thousands of far-flung sources.

A multilingual treasury of cannabis ephemera, with cover photos rather than publisher information, is at: http://www.hemperium.com/books.html.

Here are five excellent Web libraries on psychotropic drugs:

·       The Vaults of Erowid, http://www.erowid.org.

·       Lycaeum, http://leda.lycaeum.org.

·       Drug Text, http://www.drugtext.org.

·       DRCNet Online Library of Drug Policy, http://www.druglibrary.org, which includes

·       The Schaffer Library, http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/index.htm.

 

Aaronson, Bernard, and Humphry Osmond, eds. Psychedelics: The Uses and Implications of Hallucinogenic Drugs. Anchor Books / Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1970.

Abel, Ernest L., ed. The Scientific Study of Marihuana. Nelson-Hall Publishers, Chicago, 1976.

Abel, Ernest L. A Comprehensive Guide to the Cannabis Literature. Greenwood Press, Westport CT, 1979.

Abel, Ernest J. Marihuana: The First 12,000 Years. Plenum Press, New York, 1980.

Abel, Ernest J. A Marijuana Dictionary: Words, Terms, Events, and Persons Relating to Cannabis. Greenwood Press, Westport CT, 1982.

Aberle, David F., with Harvey C. Moore. The Peyote Religion Among the Navajo. Aldine Pub. Co., Chicago, 1967. Perhaps the best over-all study of peyote in Native American religion, covering history and current use.

Abraham, Rick. The Dirty Truth: The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush. Mainstream Publishers, Houston, 2000.

Abramson, Harold, ed. The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy. Macy Foundation, New York, 1960. Papers from the first major conference of acid researchers, which pitted CIA doctors and their psychotomimetic model against independents with a psychedelic viewpoint.

Acker, Caroline Jean. Creating the American Junkie: Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2002.

Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence [the Wootten Commission]. Cannabis: Report by the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, London, 1969, online at: http://www.drugtext.org/reports/wootton/Default.htm.

Agurell, Stig, William L. Dewey, and Robert E. Willette, eds. The Cannabinoids: Chemical, Pharmacologic, and Therapeutic Aspects, Academic Press, New York, 1984.

Alander, Olaf Reinhardt. Inebrianta. Upsala, 1762, doctoral dissertation under Carolus Linnaeus, the first general study of psychotropics in the West.

Aldrich, Michael, Richard Ashley, Michael Horowitz, et al. High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs. Stonehill Pub. Co., New York, 1978.

Aldrich, Michael. “Tantric Cannabis Use in India.” Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 227–233.

Allegro, John M. The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross. 1970. Like Dionysus and Orpheus, Jesus was the eponymous leader and apotheosis of a psilocybe mushroom church.

Altered States of Consciousness: Current Views and Research Problems. Drug Abuse Council, Washington, DC, 1976. Despite the title, a bouquet of interesting essays from a time when it seemed that science might eventually carry the day among U.S. policymakers.

Anderson, Patrick. High in America: The True Story Behind NORML and the Politics of Marijuana. Viking Press, New York, 1981. R. Keith Stroup and the decrim years.

Andrews, George, and David Solomon, eds. The Coca Leaf and Cocaine Papers. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1976.

Andrews, George, and Simon Vinkenoog, eds. The Book of Grass: An Anthology of Indian Hemp. Grove Press, New York, 1967. Of the cannabis sourcebooks published in the 1960s, this one has the widest range of historical, literary, scientific, and contemporary documents.

Andrews, George. MKULTRA: The CIA's Top-Secret Program in Human Experimentation and Behavior Modification. Healthnet Press, Winston-Salem NC, 2001. (See note to Gordon Thomas entry, below.)

Annual Symposia. International Cannabinoid Research Society, Burlington VT, online at http://cannabinoidsociety.org.

Anonymous. The Compleat Psilocybin Mushroom Cultivator’s Bible. Hongero Press, Miami, 1976.

Anonymous. Trucker’s Bible. Release, London, 1974. World dope-law survey and small-scale smuggling hints from the original British heads’ legal-aid society.

Anonymous. Just Another Truckstop. Release, London, 1975. Update sequel to Trucker’s Bible.

Anonymous. Legal Highs: A Concise Encyclopedia of Legal Herbs and Chemicals with Psychoactive Properties. High Times / Level Press, New York / San Francisco, 1973.

Anslinger, Harry J. and C. Cooper. “Assassin of Youth.” American Magazine, no. 124, July 1937. Reprint in all its mendacious glory by High Times, no. 8, February/March 1976, p. 40ff. Perhaps the most influential piece of pot demagoguery ever, published on the eve of cannabis prohibition.

Antonil. Mama Coca. Hassle Free Press, London, 1978.

Ashley, Richard. Cocaine: Its History, Uses and Effects. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1974.

Ashley’s Sister. The Cannabis Cookbook. Available from EveryoneDoesIT, 239 Station Road, Harrow, Middlesex UK HA1 2TB, www.EveryoneDoesIT.com.

Auld, John. Marijuana Use and Social Control. Academic Press, London, 1981.

Australian Department of Health and Aged Care. Legislative Options for Cannabis in Australia: Report Commissioned for the Commonwealth/State Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1994, online at: http://www.drugtext.org/reports/aus/cannabis.htm.

Australian Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare. Drug Problems in Australia—An Intoxicated Society? Australian Commonwealth Government Printing Office, Canberra, 1977.

Baer, John S., G. Alan Marlatt, and Robert J. McMahon, eds. Addictive Behaviors Across the Life Span. Sage, Newbury Park CA, 1993.

Barber, Theodore Xenophon LSD, Marihuana, Yoga and Hypnosis. Aldine, Chicago, 1970.

Baring-Gould, Sabine. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages [1866]. Oxford University Press, New York, 1979.

Barleycorn, Michael. Moonshiner’s Manual. Oliver Press, Willits CA, 1974.

Barnett, Gene, and C. Nora Chang, eds. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Psychoactive Drugs. Biomedical Publications, Foster City CA, 1985.

Barrett, Leonard E. The Rastafarians. Beacon Press, Boston, 1977.

Bates, Charles T. Ransoming the Mind. Yes! International Publishers, St. Paul MN, 1986.

Baudelaire, Charles. Artificial Paradise: On Hashish and Wine as a Means of Expanding Individuality, trans. Ellen Fox. Herder and Herder, New York, 1971.

Baudelaire, Charles. The Poem of Hashish. Trans. Sallie Sullivan, Harper & Row, New York, 1971. Trans. Aleister Crowley, available online at http://www.quantumlounge.com/data/CROWLEY/equinox/equi03005,htm and at http://quality99.hypermart.net/writing.htm.

Baum, Dan. Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure. Little, Brown, New York, 1996.

Bayer, Ronald, and Gerald M. Oppenheimer, eds. Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.

Beard, George Miller. Stimulants and Narcotics: Medically, Philosophically, and Morally Considered. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1871. The first American survey of psychoactives. Beard had a cautiously favorable outlook toward their use.

Becker, Howard S. Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance. Macmillan, New York, 1963.

Bello, Joan. The Benefits of Marijuana, Physical, Psychological and Spiritual, rev. ed. Lifeservices, Boca Raton FL, 2000. www.benefitsofmarijuana.com. “If you want to be one of those people who seem to know everything important there is to know about marijuana, this is the book you ought to read. … Bello presents it all with balance, lucidity, and a sort of calm spirituality that you rarely encounter.” —Dean Latimer, High Times.

Benitez, Fernando. In the Magic Land of Peyote [1968], trans. John Upton. University of Texas Press, Austin TX, Warner Books, New York, 1975. One of the two best accounts of the Huichol peyote hunt and religious use of the magic cactus [See also Myerhoff].

Benjamin, Walter. “Hashish in Marseilles.” Selected Writings, vol. II, 1927–1934, ed. Michael Jennings, et al., Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1999, pp. 673–679.

Bennett, Chris, Lynn Osburn, and Judy Osburn. Green Gold, the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic & Religion. Access Unlimited, P.O. Box 1900, Frazier Park CA 93225, 1995.

Benson, Bruce Lowell, and David W. Rasmussen. Illicit Drugs and Crime. Independent Institute, Oakland CA, 1996, www.independent.org.

Benson, Bruce Lowell. The Economic Anatomy of a Drug War: Criminal Justice in the Commons. Rowman & Littlefield, Latham MD, 2003.

Berger, Will. “Just Another Colombian Prison Morning,” High Times, March-April 2004. This may be the best short introduction to drug-war realities ever written.

Beringer, Kurt. Der Meskalinrausch: Seine Beschichte und Erscheinungsweise [The Mescaline High: What It Encompasses and How It Manifests Itself]. Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1927. Still the definitive study of mescaline, written during the heyday of its popularity in the Weimar Republic.

Bertram, Eva, ed. Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1996.

Bey, Hakim, and Abel Zug, eds. Orgies of the Hemp Eaters: Cuisine, Slang, Literature & Ritual of Cannabis Culture. Updates and additional material at www.hempeaters.org. Autonomedia, P. O. Box 568, Williamsburg Station, Brooklyn NY 11211-0568, www.autonomedia.org, 2004. The grandest cannabis sourcebook yet compiled, this one concentrates on the drug’s use in India, the Islamic world, and the Western underground, with numerous recipes for its ingestion in food and drink.

Bharati, Agehananda. The Tantric Tradition: The Ritual Use of Cannabis. Ryder, London, 1965

Bishop, Malden Grange. The Discovery of Love: A Psychedelic Experience with LSD-25. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1963. Account of life-changing religious experiences on acid.

Blum, Richard H. Handbook of Abusable Drugs. Gardner, New York, 1984.

Blum, Richard H., ed. Society and Drugs. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1970.

Blum, Richard H., ed. Utopiates: The Use and Users of LSD-25. Atherton Press, New York, 1964. Fifteen papers on psychedelic experience before the law’s hammer descended.

Boire, Richard Glen. Marijuana Law, 2nd ed. Ronin Pub. Co., Berkeley CA, www.roninpub.com, 1996.

Boling, Rick. “Dark Age Drug Farmers.” Omni, May 1989.

Bollinger, Lorenz, ed. Cannabis Science: From Prohibition to Human Right. Peter Lang, New York, 1997.

Bong, Don. Cooking with Pot. 2000. www.livedead.com/cooking.

Bonnie, Richard J., and C. H. Whitebread. The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marihuana Prohibition in the United States. University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1974.

Bonnie, Richard J., chief author, National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse, Marihuana, a Signal of Misunderstanding. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1972; Signet/New American Library, New York, 1972.

Booth, Martin. Cannabis: A History. Random House, New York, 2003.

Bowart, Walter, et al. (Stone Mountain). Pot Art for Potheads—Marijuana Reading Matter: An Anthology of Reprints from the Popular Press. Apocrypha Books, Tucson AZ, 1970. An anthology from the hay-day of the underground press by the founder of New York’s East Village Other.

Bowles, Paul. 100 Camels in the Courtyard. City Lights Books, San Francisco, 1962.

Brady, Pete. “The geopolitics of Afghani Hash.” Cannabis Culture Magazine, March 20, 2002, www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2225.html.

Braude, Monique C., and Jacqueline P. Ludford, eds. Marijuana Effects on the Endocrine and Reproductive Systems. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville MD, 1984.

Braude, Monique C., and Stephen Szara, eds. The Pharmacology of Marihuana, 2 vols. Raven Press, New York, 1976.

Brecher, Edward M, and the editors of Consumer Reports. Licit and Illicit Drugs. Little, Brown, Boston, 1972.

Brereton, William H. The Truth About Opium. W. H. Allen, London, 1882. A Hong Kong lawyer debunks the anti-Chinese bigotry being deployed in the push for opiate prohibiton.

Brewton, Peter. The Mafia, the CIA, and George Bush. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1992.

British Medical Association. Therapeutic Uses of Cannabis. Harwood Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, 1997.

British Police Foundation. Drugs and the Law: Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Misuse of Drugs Act of 1971 [the Runciman Report]. Police Foundation, London, 2000, online at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/runciman/default.htm.

Brotteaux, Pascal (pseudonym). Hachich: Herbe de Folie et de Reve [Hashish: Herb of Folly and Dream]. Editions Vega, Paris, 1934. Excellent historical study, exceedingly rare.

Brown, Robert E., et al., eds. The Psychedelic Guide to Preparation of the Eucharist in a Few of Its Many Guises. Linga Sharira Incense Co., Austin TX, 1968.

Brownlee, Nick. This Is Cannabis. Sanctuary Press, London, 2002.

Brunner, Theodore F. “Marijuana in Ancient Greece and Rome? The Literary Evidence.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 47, pp. 344–355, 1973. Shorter article of same title: Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 221–225.

Burgess, G. Anthony. Indoor Sinsemilla. G., 1984.

Burroughs, William S. (“William Lee”). Junky [1953], unexpurgated edition with Allen Ginsberg’s introduction. Penguin Books, New York, 1976.

Burroughs, William S. Naked Lunch. Grove Press, New York, 1959. The 1966 Evergreen Black Cat paperpack reprint, though riddled with typographical errors, includes the author’s article on his experiences with various drugs, from The British Journal of Addiction, vol. 53, no. 2, 1956.

Burroughs, William, and Eric Mottram. Smack…. Aloes Books, London, 1975. Two taped interviews on the title subject in relation to the author’s methods of composition.

Burroughs, William. White Subway. Aloes Books, London, 1974? Sixteen short pieces, mostly fulminating (exploding) on junk as both cure and paradigm of addiction to the consensus we are displeased to call reality.

Cabinet #8, special issue on drugs. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/subscribe/index.php.

Caldwell, Anne E. Origins of Psychopharmacology: From CPZ to LSD. Charles C Thomas, Springfield IL, 1970. (CPZ=chlorpromazine, aka Thorazine.)

Caldwell, William Vernon. LSD Psychotherapy: An Exploration of Psychedelic and Psycholytic Therapy. Grove Press, New York, 1968. Important study of LSD’s ability to open the unconscious and facilitate breakthroughs.

California Research Advisory Panel. Twentieth Annual Report of the Research Advisory Panel. State Capitol, Sacramento, 1989, online at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/caresadv/default.htm.

Canadian Government Commission of Inquiry [the Le Dain Commission]. Report of the Commission of Inquiry Into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs. Information Canada, Ottawa, 1970, 1972, Queen’s Printer, Ottawa, 1973, online at: www.drugtext.org/reports/ledain/nonmed.htm.

Canal Zone Committee. The Panama Canal Zone Military Investigations [on the effects of marijuana use among soldiers]. U.S. Army, 1925.

Carter, William E. Cannabis in Costa Rica. Institute of the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1980.

Carver, George Washington. How to Grow Marijuana Indoors for Medicinal Use. Sun Magic Publishing, 1997.

Castaneda, Carlos. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge. Ballantine Books, New York, 1968.

Castaneda, Carlos. A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1971; Pocket Books, New York, 1972.

Castaneda, Carlos. Journey to Ixtlan: The Lessons of Don Juan. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1972; Pocket Books, New York, 1974.

Castaneda, Carlos. Tales of Power. Simon and Schuster / Touchstone Books, New York, 1974.

Castaneda, Carlos. The Second Ring of Power. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1977.

Castaneda, Carlos. The Fire from Within. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1984.

Castaneda, Carlos. The Art of Dreaming. HarperCollins, New York, 1994.

Cervantes, Jorge,. Indoor Marijuana Horticulture—The Indoor Bible, rev. ed. Van Patten Publishing, http://gardeningindoors.com, 2001.

Cherniak, Laurence. The Great Book of Cannabis. Cherniak/Damele Pub. Co., Oakland CA.

Cherniak, Laurence. The Great Books of Cannabis and Other Drugs, or Researching the Pleasures of the High Society: Volume I, Book II— Marijuana Around the World, Sinsemilla, Stash, Opium. Cherniak/Damele Pub. Co., Oakland CA, 1982.

Cherniak, Laurence. The Great Books of Hashish: Volume I, Book I—Morocco, Lebanon, Afghanistan, the Himalayas. And/Or Press, 1979.

Chesher, Gregory B., Paul Consroe, and Richard E. Musty, eds. Marijuana: An International Research Report, Proceedings of the Melbourne Symposium on Cannabis, National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Monograph Series, No. 7. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1988.

Chomsky, Noam. An American Addiction—Drugs, Guerillas, Counterinsurgency: U.S. Intervention in Colombia. CD-ROM, AK Press, Oakland, and Alternative Tentacles Records, San Francisco, 2001.

Christic Institute and nine authors and illustrators. Brought to Light: 30 Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals and Covert Operations That Robbed America and Betrayed the Constitution. Titan Books, London, 1989. Unique comic-book-style documentary in two parts: The La Penca Bombing and The Secret Team.

Christison, Alexander. “On the Natural History, Action, and Uses of Indian Hemp.” Monthly Journal of Medical Science, vol. 13, pp. 26–45, 117–121, 1851.

Claridge, Gordon. Drugs and Human Behavior. Pelican Books, Middlesex UK, 1972.

Clarke, Robert Connell. Hashish! Red Eye Press, Los Angeles, 1998.

Clarke, Robert Connell. Marijuana Botany: The Propagation and Breeding of Distinctive Cannabis. Ronin Pub. Co., Berkeley CA, www.roninpub.com, 1981.

Cockburn, Alexander, and Jeffrey St. Clair. Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press. Verso Books, New York, 1999.

Cocteau, Jean. Opium: The Diary of a Cure, trans. Margaret Crosland and Sinclair Road. Grove Press, New York, 1957.

Cohen, Ira (“Panama Rose”). The Hashish Cookbook. Gnaoua Press, Tangiers, 1967. The recipe pamphlet that introduced majun to the hippies.

Cohen, Sidney, and Richard Stillman, eds. The Therapeutic Potential of Marihuana. Plenum Medical Book Co., New York, 1976.

Cole, David. No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System. The New Press, New York, 1999.

Conrad, Chris. Hemp for Health: The Medicinal and Nutritional Uses of Cannabis Sativa. Healing Arts Press, Rochester VT, 1997.

Conrad, Chris. Hemp, Lifeline to the Future. Creative Xpressions, Los Angeles, 1993.

Constantine, Alex. Virtual Government: CIA Mind Control Operations in America. Feral House, Los Angeles, 1997. (See note to Gordon Thomas entry, below.)

Cook, Dana, ed. The Book of First Drug Experiences. [working title; not yet published as of 4/04; excerpt, “First Tokes,” in High Times Grow America #2, 60–64.]

Cooke, Mordecai C. The Seven Sisters of Sleep: Popular History of the Seven Prevailing Narcotics of the World—Tobacco, Opium, Hemp, Betel, Coca, Thornapple, Amanita. James Blackwood, London, 1860.

Courtright, David T. Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 2002.

Crane, Jonathan Townley. Arts of Intoxication: The Aim and the Results. Carlton and Lanahan, New York, 1871. Excerpt online at: http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/1870/townley.htm.

Crowley, Aleister. Diary of a Drug Fiend. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1923; Samuel Weiser, Box 612, York Beach ME 03910, 1970. The Great Beast’s masterpiece on cocaine and heroin.