Larry Sloman's "Reefer Madness" (1979/1983)

New York City: Grove Press (book), 1983.
8" x 5.25" x 0.875", 363 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-394-62446-7.

Reefer Madness: Marijuana in America by Larry Sloman, as published in an Evergreen edition softcover by Grove Press (New York City), 1983, following an original copyright date of 1979. Cover photo by Mike Keza. Postscript by Dean Latimer.

William S. Burroughs supplies the preface for this book, pp. xi-xiii.

Contents: 

• acknowledgments
• William S. Burroughs: preface
• Larry Sloman: Reefer Madness:
• Overture
• Part 1: Grass Roots:
• Chapter 1: Early Heads
• Chapter 2: The Killer Weed Heads North: Enter Mr. Anslinger
• Chapter 3: The Bureau Responds
• Chapter 4: The Gore File
• Chapter 5: The Marihuana Tax Act Hearings of 1937
• Chapter 6: The Mighty Mezz and the Brooklyn Kid
• Chapter 7: The Bureau Retreats
• Chapter 8: Marijuana Finds a Voice
• Chapter 9: The Jazz Musicians' Pogrom
• Chapter 10: The Little Flower Meets the Swedish Angel
• Chapter 11: Allen Ginsberg Versus the Moloch Bureau
• Chapter 12: A Gumshoe Remembers Harry
• Chapter 13: Mary Warner Leaves the Ghetto
• Chapter 14: A Short Vacation in Hollidaysburg
• Part 2: Middle-Class Marihuanists:
• Chapter 15: Smoke, Dolling, Smoke
• Chapter 16: Amotivational in Suburbia
• Chapter 17: A Dealer's Lament
• Chapter 18: The Only Semi-Legal Pothead in America
• Chapter 19: The Cottage Industry
• Part 3: The Politics of Pot:
• Chapter 20: The Old Guard Retreats
• Chapter 21: Moloch Revisited
• Chapter 22: The Pendulum Swings Back
• Coda: Reefer Madness: Reprise
• Dean Latimer: Postscript: Paraquat and All That