Drugs and drug policy in America : a documentary history / edited by Steven R. Belenko.

Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 2000.

xxxiv, 380 pages ; 24 cm.

American drug policy in the 19th century -- Hypodermic injection -- Opiate use -- Opium smoking -- Cocaine -- Heroin -- The early expansion of Federal drug control -- The Harrison Act -- Supreme Court decisions on the Harrison Act -- Overview of state anti-drug laws -- State marijuana laws -- Marijuana policy: the early years -- American drug policy to World War II -- The Federal Bureau of Narcotics -- Drug policy from World War II through the 1950s -- The problems of drug smuggling and teen drug abuse -- The Boggs Act and the Eisenhower Committee -- The medicalization of addiction -- Drug treatment from 1900 to 1930 -- The discovery of methadone -- Drug policy in the 1960s and 1970s -- Civil commitment laws -- LSD in the 1960s -- The Nixon Administration, the Vietnam War, and the 1970 Drug Control Act -- Marijuana policy after the 1960s -- Medical marijuana -- Crack cocaine and drug policy from the 1980s -- Anti-drug Abuse Act of 1986 -- The debate over drug legalization.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-372) and index.