Preludes

The movement whose history we’re recounting has two complementary sides —the political/legal and the medical/scientific. (Even the two sides have two sides.)

• Cannabis was introduced to the Americas by Slaves
• The Remarkable William Brooke O’Shaughnessy
• Cannabis Americana
• The Problem With Cannabis as Medicine in 1926
• Roosevelt Ends Alcohol Prohibition
• Thelma White and the making of Reefer Madness
• Prohibition ’37 —The Congressional Hearing
• LaGuardia/Zinn
• Louis Armstrong. Marijuana Advocate
• Pot Pulp
• The Army’s Conquest-by-Cannabinoids Fantasy 
• Ed Sanders —A Head of His Time
• Nixon and the Shafer Commission Report (1972)
• Marijuana in the Treatment of Glaucoma: an affidavit by John C. Merritt, MD
• James A. Washington: The Judge Who Acknowledged ‘Medical Necessity’
• Irv Rosenfeld’s Medicine Arrives via the Federal IND “Program”
• Prozac and the Marketing of ‘Clinical Depression’
• Cannabis Medicinal Uses at a ‘Buyers’ Club’  by Tod Mikuriya, MD