Reefer Madness – 1895 to the Present – Chapter 8: 1950-1960 – Real Gone Beatniks
The 1950s. There wasn’t very much hemp growing any more. And cannabis medicine bottles were just a memory.
Browsing: parental hysteria
Reefer Madness – 1895 to the Present – Chapter 7: 1940 to 1950 – Assassin Of Youth
DML looks closely at the media from the 1940s: From the anti-pot side – more ignorance, racism and parental hysteria
Reefer Madness – 1895 to the Present – Chapter 6: 1930-1940 – Incurable Insanity
The 1930s! All the racism, demonization, ignorance and parental hysteria of the 1920s.
Reefer Madness – 1895 to the Present – Chapter 5: 1920-1930 – Devil’s Smoke
In this chapter DML looks carefully at the 1920s, where parental hysteria becomes more common, and demonization returns.
Reefer Madness – 1895 to the Present – Chapter 4: 1910 to 1920 – Loco Weed
In this chapter, DML provides many examples of the 3 conceptual devices used by prohibitionists in the second decade of the 20th century to set the stage for cannabis prohibition
