[San Francisco]: Drug Research Project, [ca. 1973]. An anti-methadone broadside from the Drug Research Project, “a [San Francisco] group of third world and white people involved in struggling against drug abuse in their communities.”. The broadside’s title references the theory that the U.S. government was using drug addiction as a...... More
[New York: ARM 14], 1970. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, [8] pp, illus. Center fold, newsprint slightly browning, tiny splits at fold, about Near Fine. Three copies found in WorldCat (Univ. of VA, Wisconsin and Kansas). Scarce. A presumably one-off anti-drug publication by the unidentified ARM 14 in New York..... More
![Consequences [INSCRIBED ~ John Haynes Holmes' copy]. Julia Ellsworth FORD, John Haynes HOLMES](/pictures/thumb/03118.jpg?v=1509131659)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929. First edition. 12mo. (19 cm). 1/2 leather, 1/2 textured paper with gilt-stamped spine and five raised bands; top edge gilt; xv, [1], [2], 3-342 pp. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page to John Haynes Holmes who provides the introduction..... More
n.p., ca. 1967. An alarmist report on the increase of psychedelic drug use and the doctors and scientists pushing such use. The author argues: "Hallucinogenic mushrooms and pathogenic micro-organisms have been introduced into the Curriculum of the Elementary Public Schools." She goes on to maintain that the commotion around busing..... More
New York: Random House, 1953. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). 3/4 grey paper stamped in blue & red over grey cloth boards; 246 pp.; dust jacket. Stated first printing. Published the same year as William Burroughs' Junkie, the pseudonymously authored I Was a Drug Addict begins in 1910 in Bank..... More
[New York]: Youth International Party, [1976]. A Yippie poster for the organization’s annual smoke-in at Washington Sq. Park featuring a photograph of two giddy weed enthusiasts staring into a jar of joints. The event featured speakers Frank Fiormonti (from NORML), Lindsey Audin (The N.Y. Coalition to Stop S-1), Dave Dellinger..... More
[Washington, D. C.?: Z.I.P.P.Y.], 1985. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer for the 1985 Annual Smoke-In in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the Zippies, The Committee to Make Reagan Face the Music and Eat the Rich. Featuring an illustration of Ronald Reagan with a gun firing a heart to his head..... More