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The La Guardia Committee Report

The Marihuana Problem in the City of New York

Mayor's Committee on Marihuana, by the New York Academy of Medicine

City of New York , 1944.

Zip file of the entire report - about 114K

• SOCIOLOGICAL, MEDICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES
  • Foreword, by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia
  • Introduction - E. H. L. Corwin, PhD, Secretary
• THE SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY
  • Introduction - Dudley D. Shoenfeld, MD
  • Organization of Staff
  • The Mental Attitude of the Marihuana Smoker Toward Society and Marihuana
  • Marihuana and School Children
  • Conclusions
• THE CLINICAL STUDY
  • Plan and Scope
  • Subjects Selected for the Study
• Medical Aspects
  • Symptoms and Behavior
  • The Cigarette (Note the use of the Jack Benny radio show in the research)
  • Psychotic Episodes
  • Organic and Systemic Functions
  • Intellectual Functions
  • Findings
  • Summary and Discussion
  • Comparison Between Users and Non-Users from the Standpoint of Mental and Physical Deterioration
    

With special thanks to Peter Webster for his work in scanning this document for the library.

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