Seasons in the Psychotropics

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

(Part 4 of 4 [R-Z]) by Gary Stimeling

 

Copyright 2005 Psychotropics Cornucopia, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

 

PART 4 OF 4 [R-Z]

 

Radcliffe, Anthony, Peter Ruch, Carol Forror Scott, and Joe Cruse. The Pharmer’s Almanac: A Layman’s Guide to Psychoactive Drugs. Ballantine Books, New York, 1985.

Ranalli, Paolo. Advances in Hemp Research. Haworth Press, Binghamton NY, 1999. For the evolutionary history of cannabis, see especially David W. Pate’s essay, “The Phytochemistry of Cannabis: Its Ecological and Evolutionary Implications,” pp. 1–19.

Randall, Robert C. Marijuana and AIDS: Pot, Politics, and PWAs in America. Galen Press, Washington DC, 1991.

Randall, Robert C. Marijuana Medicine and the Law, 2nd ed., 2 vols. Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law Series, Galen Press, Washington DC, 1988–1990. Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics, P.O. Box 19161, Sarasota FL 34276.

Randall, Robert C., and Alice O’Leary. Marijuana Rx: The Patients’ Fight for Medicinal Pot. Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1998.

Randall, Robert C., ed. Cancer Treatment and Marijuana Therapy. Marijuana, Medicine, and the Law Series, Galen Press, Washington DC, 1990.

Rathbun, Mary, and Dennis Peron. Brownie Mary’s Cookbook and Dennis Peron’s Recipe for Social Change. Trail of Smoke Pub. Co., San Francisco, 1996.

Ratsch, Christian. Dictionary of Sacred and Magical Plants. Prism Press, Bridport, Dorset UK, 1992.

Ratsch, Christian. Gateways to Inner Space. Prism Press, Bridport, Dorset UK, 1989.

Ratsch, Christian. Plants of Love: The History of Aphrodisiacs and a Guide to Their Identification and Use. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley CA, 1997.

Regardie, Israel, ed. Roll Away the Stone: . Llewellyn Publications, St. Paul MN, 1968. Collection of Aleister Crowley’s writings on hashish.

Reichel-Dolmatoff, G. The Shaman and the Jaguar. Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1976. Study of shamans’ use of virola snuff and yagé in the uncitified tribes of Colombia.

Reinarman, Craig, and Harry G. Levine, eds. Crack in America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997, 1-800-822-6657, www.ucpress.edu. Documents the damage wrought by the war on crack and the potential benefits of a harm-reduction approach.

Restak, Richard M. Receptors. Bantam Books, New York, 1994.

Richardson, Jim. Sinsemilla Marijuana Flowers. And/Or Press, San Francisco, 1976.

Richardson, Jim; pictures by Arik Woods. Sinsemilla: Marijuana Flowers. And/Or Press, Berkeley, 1976. Set a new standard in herbal photography.

Richardson, P. Mick. Magic in Bloom: The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Drugs, ed. Solomon H. Snyder and Malcolm H. Lader. Burke Pub. Co., London, 1986.

Riedlinger, Thomas J. The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson. Dioscorides Press, Portland OR, 1990. Essays by Alexander Shulgin, Albert Hofmann, William Emboden, Michael Horowitz, Michael Aldrich, and other psychedelic illuminaliterati.

Rinzler, Carol Ann. The Book of Chocolate. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1977.

Robicsek, Francis. The Smoking Gods: Tobacco in Mayan Art, History and Religion. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1978.

Robinson, Rowan, and Robert Nelson. The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World’s Most Extraordinary Plant. Park Street Press, Rochester VT, 1996.

Robinson, Victor. An Essay on Hasheesh, 3rd ed. Dingwall-Rock, New York, 1930. Medical historian’s witty account of his own experiments.

Roe, Edward Payson. Without a Home. Dodd, Mead, New York, 1881. Pious novel featuring opium, but Roe’s greatest moral outrage is reserved for inhuman factory bosses.

Roffman, Roger A. Marijuana as Medicine. Madrona Publishers, Seattle, 1982.

Rohmer, Sax. Dope: A Story of Chinatown and the Drug Traffic. Robert McBride, New York, 1919. Popular titillating drug mystery.

Ronin, Jean. Police Drugs, trans. Lawrence J. Bendit. Unique study of cop and spy interrogation with forced administration of sodium pentothal, scopolamine, methamphetamine, etc.

Rosavear, John A. Pot: A Handbook of Marijuana. Citadel Press, Secaucus NJ, 1967.

Rosen, Winifred, and Andrew Weil. From Chocolate to Morphine: Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs, rev. ed. Houghton-Mifflin, New York, 1998.

Rosenthal, Ed, ed. Hemp Today. Quick Trading Co., P.O. Box 429477, San Francisco CA 94142, 1994. All of Rosenthal’s books and many others are available at www.quicktrading.com.

Rosenthal, Ed, Steve Kubby, and S. Newhart. Why Marijuana Should Be Legal, 2nd ed. Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 2003.

Rosenthal, Ed, Tod H. Mikuriya, and Dale H. Gieringer. Marijuana Medical Handbook: A Guide to Therapeutic Use. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 1997.

Rosenthal, Ed, William Logan, and Jeffrey Steinborn. Marijuana, the Law, and You. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 1995.

Rosenthal, Ed. Ask Ed: Marijuana Gold: Trash to Stash. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 2003. Up-to-date info on home hashmaking, vaporizers, and cannabis cookery.

Rosenthal, Ed, and William Logan. Ask Ed: Marijuana Law: Don’t Get Busted. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 2000.

Rosenthal, Ed. Easy Marijuana Gardening. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 2000

Rosenthal, Ed. Marijuana Grower’s Handbook: Indoor High-Yield Guide. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 1998.

Rosenthal, Ed. Marijuana Growing Tips. And/Or Press, Berkeley, 1986.

Rosenthal, Ed. The Best of Ask Ed: Your Marijuana Questions Answered. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 2003.

Rosenthal, Ed. The Big Book of Buds: Marijuana Varieties from the World’s Great Seed Breeders. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 2001. Survey of characteristics of various regional and recently developed strains of cannabis.

Rosenthal, Ed. The Closet Cultivator, rev. ed. Quick American Archives, Oakland CA, 1999.

Rosenthal, Franz. The Herb: Hashish vs. Medieval Muslim Society. E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1971.

Rowell, Earle Albert, and Robert Rowell. On the Trail of Marihuana, the Weed of Madness. Pacific Press Publishing Assn., Mountain View CA, 1939. Propaganda that helped mobilize public support for the recently enacted prohibition.

Rubin, Vera, and Lambros Comitas. Ganja in Jamaica, a Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use. Mouton, The Hague, and McFarland, Scotch Plains NJ, 1975.

Rubin, Vera, ed. Cannabis and Culture. Mouton, The Hague, 1975.

Rudenko, Sergei Ivanovich. Frozen Tombs of Siberia. Dent, London, and University of California Press, Berkeley, 1970. Archaeology of the Pazyryk Tombs of the western Altai Mountains, burials of cannabis-using iron-age Scythian nomads.

Rudgley, Richard, and John Erda, eds. Essential Substances: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society. Kodansha International, Tokyo, 1995.

Rudgley, Richard. The Alchemy of Culture: Intoxicants in Society. British Museum Press, London, 1998.

Rudgley, Richard. The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances. St. Martin’s  Press, New York, 1999.

Rudgley, Richard. Wildest Dreams: An Anthology of Drug-Related Literature. Little, Brown, London, 1999.

Rusoff, Gary. The Gourmet Guide to Grass: The Inside Dope on Marijuana. Pinnacle Books, New York, 1974.

Russo, Ethan, ed. Cannabis Therapeutics in HIV/AIDS. Haworth Press, Binghamton NY, 2002.

Sabbah, Hassan I. Leaves of Grass: A Compendium of Marijuana: The Hash Experience, Cultivation, Preparation, Recipes, Further Reading. Unicorn Bookshop, Brighton UK, 1971. Pamphlet.

Sankar, D. V. Siva. LSD: A Total Study. PDJ Publications, Westbury NY, 1976. Encyclopedia of scientific papers on chemistry, metabolism, and effects of acid.

Saxon, Kurt. Granddad’s Wonderful Book of Chemistry. Atlan Formularies, Alpena AR, 1987. Comprehensive lab manual.

Schaef, Anne Wilson. When Society Becomes an Addict. Harper & Row, San Francisco, 1987.

Schapira, Joel, David Schapira, and Karl Schapira. The Book of Coffee and Tea: A Guide to the Appreciation of Fine Coffees, Teas, and Herbal Beverages. St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1976.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Tastes of Paradise: A Social History of Spices, Stimulants and Intoxicants, trans. D. Jacobson. Pantheon Books, New York, 1992.

Schlosser, Eric. Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003.

Schmevelyn, Evelyn. Cooking with Marijuana. Sun Magic Publishing, Seattle, 1974.

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Albert Hofmann. Plants of the Gods: Their Sacred, Healing and Hallucinogenic Powers, rev. ed. Inner Traditions International/Healing Arts Press, Rochester VT, 1992.

Schultes, Richard Evans, and Albert Hofmann. The Botany and Chemistry of Hallucinogens. Charles C Thomas, Springfield IL, 1978.

Schultes, Richard Evans. Hallucinogenic Plants [A Golden Guide], illustrated by Elmer Smith. Golden Press, New York, div. Western Pub. Co., Racine WI, 1976. The most diverse and authoritative information on natural psychedelics ever packed into such a small space. Golden, a publisher of nature books for teens and young adults, quickly discontinued this fine volume.

Schure, Edouard. The Ancient Mysteries of Delphi, Pythagoras. Rudolf Steiner Publications, Blauvelt NY, 1971. Originally The Great Initiates, Paris, 1889.

Scott, James M. The White Poppy: A History of Opium. Heinemann, London, and Funk and Wagnalls, New York, 1969.

Scott, Peter Dale, and Jonathan Marshall. Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies and the CIA in Central America. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1998.

Scott, Peter Dale. Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD, 2003.

Searle, William S. A New Form of Nervous Disease, Together with an Essay on Erythroxylon Coca. Fords, Howard & Hulbert, New York, 1881. Perhaps the best early monograph on the medical uses of coca leaf.

Seed, Adam. Caretaking the Wild Sinsemilla. Adam Seed Publications, Healdsburg CA, 1977. Minimalist approach to outdoor growing for minimal risk.

Shannon, Elaine. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win. Viking, New York, 1988.

Shedlin, Michael, David Wallechinsky, and Saunie Salyer. Laughing Gas. And/Or Press, San Francisco, 1973; Ronin Press, Berkeley, 1992.

Sherman, Carol, Andrew Smith, and Eric Tanner. Highlights: An Illustrated History of Cannabis. Ten Speed Press, Berkeley CA, 1999.

Short, D. J. Cultivating Exceptional Cannabis: An Expert Breeder Shares His Secrets. United Graphics, 2003.

Shulgin, Alexander T. Controlled Substances: Chemical and Legal Guide to Federal Drug Laws. Ronin Pub. Co., Oakland CA, www.roninpub.com, 1992.

Siegel, Ronald K. Intoxication: Life in Pursuit of Artificial Paradise. E. P. Dutton / Pocket Books, New York, 1989.

Siler Commission. Panama Canal Zone Report. Superintendent of Documents, Washington DC, 1931.

Silverberg, Robert. Drug Themes in Science Fiction. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville MD, 1975. There’s a lot of updating to do, but NIDA seems to have lost interest.

Silverstein, Louis. Deep Spirit & Great Heart: Living in Marijuana Consciousness. Columbia College Press, Chicago, 2002. Available at http://home.earthlink.net/~louis7s and http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.asp?bookid=13721.

Simmons, Jerry L., ed. Marihuana: Myths and Realities. Brandon House Books, North Hollywood CA, 1967.

Sloman, Larry. Reefer Madness: A History of Marijuana, rev. ed. St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, 1998; originally published as Reefer Madness: Marijuana in America, Grove Press, New York, 1979.

Smith, David E., ed. The New Social Drug: Cultural, Medical, and Legal Perspectives on Marijuana. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs NJ, 1970.

Smith, Michael Valentine. Psychedelic Chemistry. Rip Off Press, San Francisco, 1969, 1974; rev. ed., Loompanics Unlimited, Port Townsend WA, 1981. Probably the best of the lab manuals. Well reviewed by Alexander Shulgin in High Times, no. 12, August 1976.

Smith, Neal. “Occupied America: A Chronology of Nazi Infiltration and the War on Some Drugs,” 2000, www.serendipity.li/wod/nsmith_chron.htm.

Snow, Otto. Amphetamine Syntheses: Industrial Edition. Thoth Press, 2002.

Snow, Otto. Oxy. Thoth Press, 2001. Opiate extraction and synthesis from poppies.

Snyder, Solomon H. Drugs and the Brain. Scientific American Library Paperbacks, New York, 1986.

Snyder, Solomon H. Uses of Marijuana. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.

Soderbergh, Steven, director, Simon Moore and Stephen Gaghan, writers. Traffic. 2000. Classic cinematic depiction of the ruthless greed that is the nitty-gritty of drug-war trading empires.

Solomon, David, ed. LSD: The Consciousness-Expanding Drug. Putnam’s / Berkley, New York, 1964.

Solomon, David, ed. The Marihuana Papers. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, and New American Library, New York, 1966. One of the handful of essential sourcebooks on cannabis, concentrating on works from the first two-thirds of the 20th century by true scientists not averse to direct experience, including all portions of the La Guardia Report relevant to the general reader, and the complete text of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.

Solowij, Nadia. Cannabis and Cognitive Functioning. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1998.

Southern, Terry. Red-Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes. Signet / New American Library, New York, 1967.

Spears, R. A. The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink. Scarecrow Press, Metuchen NJ, 1986.

Spencer, John W., and John J. Boren, eds. Residual Effects of Abused Drugs on Behavior. National Institute on Drug Abuse, Rockville MD, 1990.

Stafford, Peter G., and Bonnie H. Golightly. LSD: The Problem Solving Psychedelic. Harper & Row / Award Books, New York, 1967.

Stafford, Peter. Psychedelics Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. Ronin Pub. Co., Berkeley CA, www.roninpub.com, 1992.

Stametz, Paul, and J. S. Chilton. The Mushroom Cultivator. Agarikon Press, Olympia WA, 1983.

Stark, Raymond. The Book of Aphrodisiacs. Stein and Day, New York, 1980.

Starks, Michael. Marijuana Chemistry: Genetics, Processing, and Potency. Ronin Pub. Co., Berkeley CA, www.roninpub.com, 1990.

Starks, Michael. Marijuana Potency. And/Or Press, Berkeley, 1978.

Stefanis, Costas, Rhea Dornbush, and Max Fink. Hashish: Studies of Long-Term Users. Raven Press, New York, 1977. Excellent sociological and clinical study noteworthy for its history of cannabis as integral part of the rembetico (Greek blues-jazz) scene. Documented a complete absence of adverse effects from chronic heavy use.

Steinmetz, E. F. Kava-Kava: Famous Drug Plant of the South Sea Islands [1960]. High Times / Level Press, New York / San Francisco, 1973.

Stevens, Jay. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream. Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston, 1987.

Steward, Omer C., and David F. Aberle. Peyotism in the West. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1984. Four monographs on peyote religion in specific areas.

Stewart, Omer C. Peyote Religion: A History. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK, 1987. The definitive history of peyotism throughout the Southwest.

Stich, Rodney. Defrauding America: Encyclopedia of Secret Operations by the CIA, DEA, and Other Covert Agencies, 3rd ed. Diablo Western Press, Alamo CA, 1998.

Stich, Rodney. Drugging America: A Trojan Horse. Diablo Western Press, Alamo CA, 1999.

Stimeling, Gary (“Gary Selden”). Aphrodisia: A Guide to Sexual Food, Herbs, and Drugs. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1979.

Storm, Daniel. Marijuana Hydroponics: High-Tech Water Culture. Ronin Pub. Co., Berkeley CA, www.roninpub.com, 1987.

Strausbaugh, John, and Donald Blaise, eds. The Drug User: Documents 1840–1960. Blast/Dolphin, 1990.

Strike. Sources. Panda Ink, 1998. How to equip a lab safely.

Strike. Total Synthesis II. Panda Ink, 1998. Includes Ecstasy and amphetamines.

Stuart, Jonathan. New Prohibition: A Musical History of Hemp. Viper Records, 230 Mott St., New York NY 10012, 1-212-873-4415, www.viperrecords.com. An anthology of musical tributes to cannabis and against the war on it, set in a humorous historical narration.

Stutman, Robert M., and Richard Esposito. Dead on Delivery: Inside the Drug Wars, Straight from the Street. Warner Books, New York, 1992.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. National Household Survey on Drug Abuse: Population Estimates and Summary Findings. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville MD, annuals.

Sugerman, A. Arthur, and Ralph E. Tarter. Expanding Dimensions of Consciousness. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1978.

Sullum, Jacob. Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use. Tarcher/Putnam, New York, 2003. Lucid libertarian defense of the old-fashioned meaning of temperance—moderation in the pursuit of the pleasures that drugs can provide. Clearly recounts how the properties of drugs have been tailored to fit the historical requirements of propaganda in a process he calls “voodoo pharmacology.”

Sultzberger, Arthur Henry, ed. All About Opium. Wertheimer and Lee, London, 1884. Anthology of articles on cultivation, use, abuse, benefits, smuggling, and history.

Sumach, Alexander. A Treasury of Hashish. Stoneworks Pub. Co., Toronto, 1976.

Superweed, Mary Jane. Herbal Aphrodisiacs: A Turn-On for Lovers. Flash / Stone Kingdom Syndicate, San Francisco, 1971. (also issued anonymously in a ripoff edition with an ad for the original on the back cover!)

Swiss Federal Office of Public Health. Cannabis Report of the Swiss Federal Commission for Drug Issues. Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, 1999, online at http://www.drugtext.org/reports/swisscan.

Szasz, Thomas. Ceremonial Chemistry: The Ritual Persecution of Drugs, Addicts, and Pushers. Anchor Press / Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1974. “We have managed to replace racial, religious, and military coercions and colonialisms, which now seem to us dishonorable, with medical and therapeutic coercions and colonialisms, which now seem to us honorable.” Includes a timeline of dope wars.

Szasz, Thomas. Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market. Praeger, New York, 1992.

Tart, Charles T. Altered States of Consciousness. Doubleday, Garden City NY, 1972.

Tart, Charles T. On Being Stoned. Science and Behavior Books, Palo Alto CA, 1971.

Tart, Charles T. States of Consciousness. E. P. Dutton, New York, 1975.

Tart, Charles T. Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential. Shambhala Publications, Boston, 1987.

Tart, Charles T., ed. Beyond Ego. Shambhala Publications, Boston, 1977.

Taswell, Ruth. “Drugs and Tribal People’s Production, Use, and Trafficking: Marijuana/Hashish, an Overview.” Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, 1985, pp. 7–9.

Taylor, Norman. Narcotics, Nature’s Dangerous Gift to Man. Dell Pub. Co., New York, 1963.

Temin, Peter. Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1980.      Perhaps the most comprehensive history of American drug laws, and one of the most readable. Lucidly antipaternalistic.

Thomas, Gordon. Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse. Bantam, New York, 1989. A comprehensive account of world renowned psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron’s experiments in creating programmed assassins and spy-drones for the CIA, carried out from the 1950s through the 1980s at the Allen Memorial Institute in Montreal. Cameron used unwitting human subjects who entered the institution seeking help for mental illnesses. Cameron’s methods included erasure of personality by electroshock at 40 times the normal current levels, drug-induced sleep lasting for months, brainwashing under massive doses of LSD, and subliminal-hypnotic-radio beam techniques called “psychic driving.”

Thompson, Charles John Samuel. The Mystic Mandrake. Rider & Co., London, 1934; Gale Research Co., Detroit, 1975.

Thomson, James (“B. V.”). The City of Dreadful Night. Reeves & Turner, London, 1880. Opium-inflamed poems by “the most complete pessimist” in all literature.

Toklas, Alice B. The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook [1954]. Harper & Row, New York, 1984.

Torgoff, Martin. Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. Simon & Schuster, New York, 2004. Social history of fashions in drug use, with profiles of famous users, drug-warrior reactions, and the author’s own experiences.

Trebach, Arnold S. The Great Drug War. Macmillan, New York, 1987.

Trebach, Arnold S., and Kevin B. Zeese, eds. The Great Issues in Drug Policy. Drug Policy Foundation, Washington DC, 1990.

Trebach, Arnold S., and Kevin B. Zeese. Drug Prohibition and the Conscience of Nations. Drug Policy Foundation, Washington DC, 1990.

Tucker, Jalie A., Dennis M. Donovan, and G. Alan Marlatt, eds. Changing Addictive Behavior: Bridging Clinical and Public Health Strategies. Guilford Press, New York, 1999.

U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee Hearings to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws. The Marihuana-Hashish Epidemic and Its Impact on United States Security. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1974. The report from the suppressionist convention that set the course of U.S. research and policy on cannabis for the next three decades (and counting).

United Nations World Health Organization, Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse. Cannabis: A Health Perspective and Research Agenda. WHO, Geneva, 1997. This report was censored under pressure from U.S. and UN drug-suppression officials. The missing portion was leaked to New Scientist and summarized in “High Anxieties: The Report the WHO Tried to Hide,” New Scientist, February 21, 1998, http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/drugs/marijuana/news.html.

Vaillant, George E. The Natural History of Alcoholism. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1983.

Van Dusen, Wilson. LSD and the Enlightenment of Zen. Mendocino State Hospital, Mendocino CA, 1975.

van Praag, Henriette M. Psychotropic Drugs: A Guide for the Practitioner. Brunner/Mazel, New York, 1978.

Verlaine, Paul. Hashish and Incense, trans. F. Perou. Verlaine Society, New York, 1929.

von Bibra, Ernst. Plant Intoxicants: A Classic Text on the Use of Mind-Altering Plants [1855], trans. Hedwig Schleiffer. Healing Arts Press, Rochester VT, 1995.

Vye, George, and Stewart Grossman. Cooking with Grass. Two Continents Publishing Group, Lawrence MA, 1976.

Waller, Coy W., and R. Nair. Marijuana: An Annotated Bibliography. Mac Millan, New York, 1982. Update of Marihuana: An Annotated Bibliography, by Coy W. Waller, Carleton E. Turner, et al., Macmillan, New York, 1978. Notes by prohibitionist researchers on 3,045 studies from 1964 to 1976.

Walton, Alan Hull. Aphrodisiacs (Love Potions): From Legend to Prescription. Associated Booksellers, New York, 1958; Paperback Library, New York, 1963; Tandem Books, London, 1968 (as Stimulants for Love: The Quest for Virility).

Walton, Robert P. Marihuana: America’s New Drug Problem. J. B. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1938. Despite the title, Walton, a member of the La Guardia Commission, argued for relegalizing cannabis and continuing research on it.

Walton, Stuart. Out of It : A Cultural History of Intoxication. Harmony Books / Random House, New York, 2002.

Warner, Roger. Invisible Hand: The Marijuana Business. William Morrow, New York, 1986.

Wasson, R. Gordon, Albert Hofmann, and Carl A. P. Ruck. The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1978. Proof that the secret was psilocybe mushrooms.

Wasson, R. Gordon, Stella Kramrisch, Jonathon Ott, and Carl A. P. Ruck. Persephone’s Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion. Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 1986.

Wasson, R. Gordon. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1968.

Wasson, R. Gordon. The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica. McGraw-Hill, New York, 1980. The definitive history of psilocybe religious use.

Webb, Gary, and Maxine Waters. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. Seven Stories Press, New York, 1999.

Wedeck, Harry Ezekiel. Disctionary of Aphrodisiacs. Philosophical Library, New York. 1961.

Wedeck, Harry Ezekiel. Love Potions Through the Ages: A Study of Amatory Devices and Mores. Philosophical Library, New York, 1963.

Weil, Andrew, and Winifred Rosen. From Chocolate to Morphine. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1983.

Weil, Andrew. The Marriage of the Sun and the Moon: A Quest for Unity in Consciousness. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1980.

Weil, Andrew. The Natural Mind: An Investigation of Drugs and the Higher Consciousness, rev. ed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1986.

Weil, Gunther M., Ralph Metzner, and Timothy Leary, eds. The Psychedelic Reader: Selected from The Psychedelic Review. University Books, New Hyde Park NY, 1965.

Weisheit, Ralph A. Domestic Marijuana: A Neglected Industry. Greenwood, New York, 1992.

Werkgroep Verdovende Middelen [the Baan Commission]. Background and Risks of Drug Use. Staatsuitgeverij, The Hague, 1972.

Westermeyer, Joseph. Poppies, Pipes, and People. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1982. How opium is used by the people of Laos.

White, William L. Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America. Lighthouse Institute, Bloomington IN, 1998.

Williams, Fred V. The Hop-Heads: Personal Experiences Among the Users of “Dope” in the San Francisco Underworld. Walter N. Brunt, San Francisco, 1920. A journalist’s incognito reportage on coke and smack soon after passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act.

Wilson, Peter Lamborn. Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma. City Lights, Books, San Francisco, 1999.

Wilson, Robert Anton. Sex & Drugs: A Journey Beyond Limits. Playboy Press, Chicago, 1973.

Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1968; Bantam Books, New York, 1969.

World Health Organization Project on Health Implications of Cannabis Use. A Comparative Appraisal of the Health and Psychological Consequences of Alcohol, Cannabis, Nicotine, and Opiate Use, including Cannabis: A Health Perspective and Research Agenda, United Nations World Health Organization, Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Geneva, 1997. This report was censored under pressure from U.S. and UN drug-suppression officials. The missing portion was leaked to New Scientist and summarized in “High Anxieties: The Report the WHO Tried to Hide,” New Scientist, February 21, 1998, http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/drugs/marijuana/news.html.

Wright, Hans. Growing Marijuana Hydroponically. Ronin Pub. Co., Berkeley CA, www.roninpub.com, 2000.

Wright, Hans. Sea of Green, vol. 1–4. DVDs. Tin Alley Productions, 2003.

Young, Francis L. In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling, Docket 86-22, Opinion, Recommended Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law, and Decision of Administrative Law Judge. Drug Enforcement Administration, Washington DC, September 6, 1988. Summarized by Michael Isikoff, “Administrative Judge Urges Medicinal Use of Marijuana; DEA Expected to Reject Call for Limited Legalization,” Washington Post, September 8, 1988. Both available online at many sites, including http://www.crrh.org/cannabis/dea.html.

Young, James Harvey. The Toadstool Millionaires. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1975. A history of the grass-roots patent-medicine scene before it was shut down by Congress for the benefit of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. Compare to the current movement to protect us all from vendors of herbs and vitamins.

Young, Lawrence A., Linda G. Young, Marjorie M. Klein, Donald M. Klein, and Dorianne Beyer. Recreational Drugs: Everything You Need to Know About the Drugs People Take for Pleasure Today. Collier / Berkeley Books, New York, 1978.

Young, Warren, and Joseph Hixson. LSD on Campus: The Shocking Truth About the Nation’s Most Controversial Drug and Its Use in American Colleges and Universities. Dell, New York, 1966. Informative despite the sensational subtitle, researched with help from Timothy Leary.

Zaehner, Robert C. Mysticism, Sacred and Profane. Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 1957.

Zaehner, Robert C. Zen, Drugs & Mysticism. Pantheon Books and Vintage Books, divs. Random House, New York, 1973, 1974.

Zias, Jo, H. Stark, J. Seligman, R. Levy, E. Werker, A. Breur, et al. “Early Medical Use of Cannabis.” Nature, vol. 363, p. 215, May 1993.

Zimmer, Lynn Etta, and John P. Morgan. Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts: A Review of the Scientific Evidence. Lindesmith Center, New York, 1997. Though now ripe for an update, this is still by far the most readable survey of marijuana research, impartial but with zero tolerance for false objectivity and junk science.

Zinberg, Norman E. Drug Set and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use. Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 1984.