Marijuana

Table of contents

• Marijuana *
• Marijuana *
• Marijuana *
• Preface ix
• Contents *
• Marijuana *
• Introduction 1
• I - The Question of Motivation 15
• The Psychology of the Marijuana Smoker 16
• Dependence on Cannabis 19
• Marijuana Use and the Social Context 25
• II - Physiological Effects of Marijuana 42
• The Medical View 47
• The Smoker's View 52
• The Policeman's View 58
• III - The Connection Between Marijuana and Heroin *
• Living Death 65
• The Missing Link 67
• Marijuana Smoking as a Precursor of Opiate Addiction in the United States 69
• Attitudes Toward Addiction 85
• IV - The Dealer: Buying and Selling Marijuana 88
• The Pusher 90
• On Selling Marijuana 92
• Green Grows the Grass on the Lower East Side 103
• V - Marijuana in the Schools *
• Marijuana and LSD on the Campus 112
• The High School Drug Problem 121
• Drug Use Among Affluent High School Youth 128
• VI - The Question of Legalization *
• Down with Prohibition 139
• Notes on the Use of Hashish 141
• Should We Legalize Pot ? 147
• Nightmare Drugs 152
• Marijuana and the American System 154
• Marijuana and Legal Controls 155
• VII - The Epistemology and Esthetics of Pot *
• The Weed of Madness 175
• Some Thoughts on Marijuana and the Artist 177
• Bibliography *
• Index 193

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