Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Volume 13, Number 1, January-March 1981

Uncommon journal. Includes "William Burroughs – A Sketch" by John C. Kramer, M.D., an interview with Burroughs, pp. 95-97.

Published in San Francisco, CA, by Haight Ashbury Publications in January 1981.

Bibliographical Information: 

• Not in Shoaf
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19810100JOPD.13.1

Contents: 

• Marsha Rosenbaum, Ph. D. and Sheigla Murphy, B.A.: "Getting the Treatment: Recycling Women Addicts" (essay)
• William A. Emboden, Ph. D.: "The Genus Cannabis and the Correct Use of Taxonomic Categories" (essay)
• Mia Touw: "The Religious and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and Tibet" (essay)
• Robert Solomon, Thomas Barlow, and Rande Kostal: "The Opiate Trade of Taiwan and Japan: An Historical Note" (essay)
• Cyrus Agahi, Ph. D. and Christopher P. Spencer, Ph. D.: 
  Drug Abuse in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Iran" (essay)
• Diana G. Gonzalez, M.A. and John Bryan Page, Ph. D.: "Cuban Women, Sex Role Conflicts and the Use of Prescription Drugs" (essay)
• Constantino M. Torres: "Evidence for Snuffing in the Prehispanic Stone Sculpture of San Augustin, Columbia" (essay)
• Nick Dorn: "The Politics of Dependency Problems: Labor Market Failure, Youth and 'Dependency Problems' in the United Kingdom" (essay)
• John C. Kramer, M.D.: "The Metapsychology of Opium" (essay)
• Rudolf Gelpke: "On Travels in the Universe of the Soul: Reports on Self-Experiments with Delysid (LSD) and Psilocybin (CY)" (essay)
• William A. Ayres, C.D.C., Mary Jo Starsiak, M.S., R.N., and Phil Sokolay, M.S.: "The Bogus Drug: Three Methyl & Alpha Methyl Fentanyl Sold as 'China White'" (essay)
• John C. Kramer, M.D. and William S. Burroughs: "William Burroughs – A Sketch" (interview)
• Jonathan Ott: review of R. Gordon Wasson's The Wondrous Mushroom: Mycolatry in Mesoamerica 
• Weston La Barre, Ph. D.: review Plants of the Gods: Origins of Hallucinogen Use by Richard Evans Schultes and Albert Hoffman
• Stanley Krippner, Ph. D.: review of Albert Hoffman's LSD: My Problem Child
• Joseph L. Zentner, Ph. D.: review of Paul J. Goldstein's Prostitution and Drugs
• Paul Jablonka: "Two or Three Trellises" (cover art)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: E. Leif Zerkin 
• President and Founder: David E. Smith, M.D.