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Preface
Introduction
I: FROM EAST TO WEST
On the Preparation of the Indian Hemp or Gunja, W.B. O'Shaughnessy, M.D. (1839)
II: PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND SPECULATIONS(21K pdf file)
On the Haschisch or Cannabis Indica, J. Bell, M.D. (1857) (84K pdf file)
Cannabis Indica Poisoning, J.C. O'Day, M.D. (1899)(22K pdf file)
Two Cases of Poisoning by Cannabis Indica, J. Foulis, M.D., F.R.C.P. Ed. (1900) (56K pdf file)

Letter from L.M. Wheeler, Director of Dept. of Product Development, Parke-Davis.
The Physiological Activity of Cannabis Sativa, H. C. Hamilton, M.S., et al. (1913) (68K pdf file)
Description of the Hashish Experience, R. P. Walton, M.D. (1938) (136K pdf file)
III: THERAPEUTIC EXCURSIONS(17K pdf file)
Report of the Ohio State Medical Committee on Cannabis Indica (1860) (115K pdf file)
The Use of Indian Hemp in the Treatment of Chronic Chloral and Chronic Opium, E. A. Birch, M.D. (1889) (22K pdf file)
Therapeutical Uses and Toxic Effects of Cannabis Indica, J. R. Reynolds, M.D. (1890) (29K pdf file)
Cannabis Indica as an Anodyne and Hypnotic, J. B. Mattison, M.D. (1891) (43K pdf file)
Marihuana: Therapeutic Application, R. P. Walton, M.D. (1938) (40K pdf file)
Antiepileptic Action of Marihuana Active Substances, J. P. Davis, M.D., and H. H. Ramsey, M.D. (1949) (22K pdf file)
Cannabis Substitution as an Adjunct Therapeutic Tactic in the Treatment of Alcoholism, T. H. Mikuriya, M.D. (1969) (39K pdf file)
IV: RECENT ACUTE CLINICAL STUDIES(21K pdf file)
“La Guardia Report”: Medical Aspects, S. Allentuck, M.D. (1944) (206K pdf file)
A Clinical and Metabolic Study of Acute Intoxication with Cannabis Sativa and Its Role in the Model Psychosis, F. Ames, M.D. (1958) (238K pdf file)
Clinical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana in Man, A. T. Weil, M.D., et al. (1969) (168K pdf file)
Comparisons of the Effects of Marijuana and Alcohol on Simulated Driving Performance, A. Crancer, Ph.D., et al. (1969) (83K pdf file)
V: CHEMICAL AND PHARMACOLOGICAL STUDIES (28K pdf file)
Clinical and Physiological Notes on the Action of Cannabis Indica, H. A. Hare, M.D. (1887) (38K pdf file)
A Contribution to the Pharmocology of Cannabis Indica, B. R. Marshall, M.D. (1898) (234K pdf file)
Dispensatory of the United States of America, 20 Ed.: Cannabis Indica, J. P. Remington, Ph.M., F.C.S., et al. (1918) (90K pdf file)
Marihuana, R. Adams, Ph.D. (1942) (333K pdf file)
The Active Principles of Cannabis and the Pharmacology of the Cannabinols, S. Loewe, Ph.D. (1940) (247K pdf file)
Recent Developments in Cannabis Chemistry, A. T. Shulgin, Ph.D. (1972) (240K pdf file)
VI: SOCIAL ORIGINS OF THE MARIHUANA LAWS (13K pdf file)
The 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, C. Musto, M.D. (1971) (138K pdf file)