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CHAPTER FOUR—ENDNOTES
[1] Andrew Sinclair, Prohibition: The Era of Excess, Little, Brown & Co., N.Y., 1962, p248.
[2] David E. Kyvig, Repealing National Prohibition, U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1979, p74.
[3] Charles Hanson Towne, The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, (N.Y., Macmillan, 1923) p-61, quoted by Mark Thornton, Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 157, July, 1991, (Washington, Cato Institute) p9
[4] Sinclair, Prohibition, p211, 212.
[5] John C. McWilliams, The Protectors: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1962, U. of Delaware Press, Newark, 1990, p34
[6] Sinclair, Prohibition, p198
[7] Sinclair, Prohibition, p233
[8] Harry Philips, a reporter for the New York Evening Sun, quoted by Sean Dennis Cashman, Prohibition: The Lie of the Land, (N.Y., McMillan, 1981) p18.
[9] Clark Warburton, The Economic Results of Prohibition, N.Y., Columbia Univ. Press, 1932; quoted by Mark Thornton, Cato Institute Policy Analysis no. 157, July, 1991, Cato Institute, Washington, p5.
[10] Sinclair, 234
[11] Kyvig, Repealing National Prohibition, 32
[12] Sinclair, 208
[13] Sean Dennis Cashman, Prohibition: The Lie of the Land, McMillan, N.Y. ‘81, p212
[14] Kyvig, Repealing National Prohibition, 119-23.
[15] New York Times, Feb. 14, 1930, 18:4
[16] Cashman, Prohibition: The Lie of the Land, p209
[17] Franklin P. Adams, New York World, quoted in Sinclair, Prohibition, Era of Excess, 366.
[18] Speech in Denver, Colorado, June 25, 1923, quoted in Kyvig, Repealing National Prohibition, 2.
[19] Sean Dennis Cashman, Prohibition: The Lie of the Land, McMillan, N.Y. ‘81, p28
[20] McWilliams, The Protectors, p41
[21] Circular Letter No. 324 from H.J. Anslinger, 4 December 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, box 19, file OF 21-X, quoted in McWilliams, The Protectors, p84.
[22] H.R.11143, Sec. 3a, March 26, 1930, 71st Cong. 2d Sess., and McWilliams, The Protectors, p46.
[23] McWilliams, The Protectors, p86
[24] Musto, The American Disease, p222.
[25] McWilliams, The Protectors, p46
[26] McWilliams, The Protectors, p56, 57
[27] McWilliams, The Protectors, p48
[28] Brecher, Licit and Illicit Drugs,414; McWilliams, The Protectors, p36, 37
[29] Interview with David Musto, 14 Sept. 1995.
[30] New York Times, 16 Sep. 1934, 14 April 1935.
[31] McWilliams, The Protectors, p51
[32] Charles H. Whitebread, II, The History of Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the U.S., Speech to the California Judges Association, 1995 annual conference.
[33] Floyd K. Baskette to FBN, 4 Sept. 1936, quoted in Musto, The American Disease, p223.
[34] New York Times, 15 Sep. 1935, 4;9
[35] Musto, The American Disease, p223,5.
[36] Charles H. Whitebread, II & Richard J. Bonnie, An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, Virginia Law Review, vol 56;6, Oct 1970, Ch 5;B.
[37] McWilliams, The Protectors, p53
[38] McWilliams, The Protectors, p59
[39] Dr. Walter Treadway, head of the Mental Hygiene Division, quoted in Musto, The American Disease, p225.
[40] Taxation of Marihuana, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Hearings, 4 May 1937, p102-103, and Musto, The American Disease, p228.
[41] Charles H. Whitebread, II, The History of Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the U.S., Speech to the California Judges Association, 1995 annual conference, p10.
[42] Musto, The American Disease, p228
[43] NBC Monitor Radio, July, 1959
[44] McWilliams, The Protectors, p58
[45] King, The Drug Hang-Up, p108
[46] Sociological, Medical, Psychological and Pharmacological Studies by the Mayor’s Committee on Marijuana (The LaGuardia Report), reprinted in The Marijuana Papers, by David Soloman, Signet, N.Y., ‘68, p297,307.
[47] McWilliams, The Protectors, p104
[48] McWilliams, The Protectors, p97
[49] McWilliams, The Protectors, p98
[50] McWilliams, The Protectors, p107
[51] Musto, The American Disease, p230
[52] Alfred R. Lindesmith, The Addict and the Law, (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1965) p26
[53] Public Law No. 255, 82nd Cong., approved 2 Nov 51; McWilliams, p108
[54] The Illicit Narcotics Traffic (Senate Rept. no. 1440, 84th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1956) quoted in Musto, The American Disease, n6 p359]
[55] Rufus King, The Drug Hang-Up: America’s Fifty-Year Folly (2nd edit., Charles C. Thomas, Springfield IL, 1972) p41-43
[56] Linder v. U.S., 286 U.S. 5, 13 April 1925
[57] Rufus King, The Drug Hang-Up, p163
[58] Rufus King: interview 4 May 1996
[59] Comments on Narcotic Drugs; Interim Report of the Joint Committee of the ABA-AMA on Narcotic Drugs; by the Advisory Committee to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (U.S. Treasury Dept., Bureau of Narcotics, 1958) introduction.
[60] Rufus King, The Drug Hang-Up, p165-175
[61] Rufus King, The Drug Hang-Up, p170: “Directly and indirectly Russell Sage Trustees were approched from the Treasury Department... and given to understand that they were sponsoring a ‘controversial’ study, that the ABA and AMA spokesmen were irresponsible if nothing worse, and that it would be discreet to drop the project.”
[62] NBC Monitor Radio, July, 1959
[63] Rufus King: interview 4 May 1996
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