Historical Research on Drug Policy
1860
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Recommended Reading
- Slavery in the Hemp
Industry - Excerpted from A History of the Hemp
Industry in Kentucky by James F. Hopkins (Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1951),
pp. 4, 24-30, 132-40, 196.
- Chinese Miners
in the Gold Fields - 1860
An Act to
Protect Free White Labor Against Competition with Chinese Coolie Labor,
and to Discourage the Immigration of the Chinese into the State of California, April
26, 1862 - included here as background to the reasons for the anti-opium smoking laws in
San Francisco in the 1870s.
- The Mythical Roots of US Drug Policy: Soldier's Disease
and Addicts in the Civil War by Jerry Mandel
- American Prohibitionists and Violence,
1865-1920 - by Richard Hamm
- What Shall They Do to Be Saved?,
Harper's magazine 35, Aug. 1867, pp. 377-87. - An article about the evils of opium
addiction.
- The Lincoln Quote
- Some commentary on a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
- Outlines of the
Opium-Cure by Fitz Hugh Ludlow from The Opium Habit With Suggestions
as to the Remedy by Horace Day April 26, 1868
- Effects of Hashish -
Captain E. Burton, 1869
- Perilous Play
- Louisa May Alcott on hashish, 1869
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