Negative Space: heroin
- America’s Drug Users
- Opium was prohibited because it was used by Orientals and cocaine because it was perceived as a Negro drug. More specifically, racist views of the time saw these peoples as less able to resist the criminalizing effects of drug use. Jazz was similarly stereotyped.
- Bayer heroin
- “The sedative for coughs.”
- Designer Drugs
- Jack Shafer writes about the rise of “designer drugs”, the drug scourge of the eighties. From Science 85, March 1985, pp. 60-67.
- Effects of opium, morphine, and heroin on addicts (partial)
- Neither physical nor mental deterioration are a necessary consequence of opiate use.
- Legalize Dope
- William F. Buckley notes that with prohibition comes unregulated sales; products adulterated with true poisons if they’re even the desired product at all, and wildly varying degrees of purity.
- Opiates information
- Effects, ubiquity, and dangers of opiates.
- The Role Of Ethanol Abuse In The Etiology Of Heroin-Related Deaths
- A. J. Ruttenber, H. D. Kalter, and P. Santinga write in the Journal of Forensic Sciences Vol 35, No. 4, July 1990, pp 891-900.
- Rumsfeld worried about new terror in Afghanistan
- Rumsfeld worries publicly that Afghanistan’s terror quota will fail without renewed prohibition on opium poppies.
