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Lecture at the University

by Alexander Shulgin. Chapter 42 of PIHKAL — A Chemical Love Story
©1991 by Alexander and Ann Shulgin. Transform Press, Berkeley California.

Drug Use and the Rights of the Person

David A. J. Richards, a professor and teacher of law in the areas of constitutional and criminal law, argues in this essay that, "judgments of the immorality of drug use are wrong; indeed, the right to use many drugs currently criminalized is one of the rights of the person which the state may not transgress." From Sex, Drugs, Death, and the Law, ©1982 by Rowman and Littlefield.

The Politics of America's Latest Drug Scare

by Harry G. Levine and Craig Reinarman, Chapter 17 of Freedom at Risk: Secrecy, Censorship, and Repression in the 1980s. Edited by Richard O. Curry, ©1988 Temple University Press

Drugs, Drug Use, and Criminalization

Introduction and Chapter 1 of Drugs and Rights by Douglas N. Husak. "This timely and important book is the first serious work of philosophy to address the question: Do adults have a moral right to use drugs for recreational purposes?"

The American Drug Panic of the 1980s

Chapter 12 of Moral Panics: The Social Construction of Deviance, ©1994 by the authors Erich Goode & Nachman Ben-Yehuda, published by Blackwell.

Anomalies and Mysteries in the 'War on Drugs'

By Ann Dally, M.D. Chapter 11 of Drugs and Narcotics in History, Roy Porter & Mikulás Teich, editors, ©Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-521-43163-8

Why LSD Should Be Legalized

Chapter 5 of Pornography, Psychedelics & Technology, Essays on the Limits to Freedom
by E. J. Mishan. London: George Allen & Unwin, ©1980 E. J. Mishan

Psychedelics: A First-Amendment Right

If certain chemicals open one up to religious experience, should they be
protected by the Constitution? ©Gnosis Magazine, No. 26, Winter 1993.

Reflections on Social Policy and Drug Research

Chapter 7 of Drug, Set, and Setting: The Basis for Controlled Intoxicant Use
by Norman E. Zinberg, M.D. Yale University Press, ©1984 by Yale University.

A Sociological Perspective on Drugs and Drug Use

Chapter 1 of Drugs in American Society, by Erich Goode, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, New York. ©1972 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

Drugs and the Law

Chapter 7 of Drugs in American Society, by Erich Goode, Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, New York. ©1972 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: Drugs, Media and Morality

by Karim Murji. Chapter 5 of The Control of Drugs and Drug Users, edited by Ross Coomber. ©Harwood Academic Publishers 1998. ISBN 90-5702-042-4

Marijuana

Special issue of LIFE Magazine on marijuana, from October 1969, with an article on legalization by former FDA director Dr. James L. Goddard.

Why MDMA Should Not Have Been Made Illegal

by Marsha Rosenbaum & Rick Doblin: Chapter 6 of The Drug Legalization Debate, edited by James A. Inciardi ©1991 SAGE Publications: Studies in Crime, Law and Justice Vol 7. ISBN 0-8039-3678-8

Marijuana Legalization: The Time Is Now

by Douglas McVay: Chapter 7 of The Drug Legalization Debate, edited by James A. Inciardi ©1991 SAGE Publications: Studies in Crime, Law and Justice Vol 7. ISBN 0-8039-3678-8

A Model Legalization Proposal

by Richard B. Karel: Chapter 6 of The Drug Legalization Debate, edited by James A. Inciardi ©1991 SAGE Publications: Studies in Crime, Law and Justice Vol 7. ISBN 0-8039-3678-8



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