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The Drug Hang-Up
America's Fifty Year Folly
by Rufus King, 1972
Published and Distributed throughout the World by CHARLES C THOMAS - PUBLISHER Bannerstone House 301-327 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.
ISBN 0-398-03071-5 (paper) - Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-398 1 0
First Printing, 1972 Second Printing, 1974
Table of Contents
1. Senator Hughes' Friendly Anger
2. From Our Pusher Ancestors to the First Prohibitionists
3. The Sensible Century and Mr. Harrison's Tax Act
6. Dr. Behrman, Dr. Linder, and the High Court
7. Dr. Ratigan's Lonely Battle
8. Congressman Coffee and His Slender Company
10. The Weed of Madness and the Little Flower
12. Balancing the Grass Account
13. Chairman Kefauver and the Mafia Myth
14. Lawyers, Doctors, and Senator Daniel
16. The Narcotic Control Act of 1956
17. Follow-the-Leader in State Capitols
19. The National Institutes Symposium
20. The British and Other "Systems"
22. The White House Conference, 1962-63
24. Rehabilitation, from Nothing to NARA
25. Dangerous Drugs: Here We Go Againl
'The oppression of crowns and principalities is unquestionably over, but the more frightful oppres-sion of selfish, ruthless, and merciless majorities may yet constitute one of the chapters of future history."
-Peter S. Grosscup Judge, U. S. District Court, Illinois 1894
"I had to operate courts for sixteen years in a way that I cannot justify. I could not help realizing in the course of my experience that the legal approach to drug addiction has become just about the most absurd and vicious operation that man can imagine."
-John M. Murtagh Justice, New York Supreme Court 1971