In episode 5, Dr. Emory Wilder, FHSU Masters student joins Hollie to discuss “Serpents” and “Vipers” and the resistance to cannabis prohibition from 1930-1945. Dr. Wilder covers cannabis in patent medicines, cannabis as a muse in jazz music, and the circumstances that led to discourse on a federal ban.
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Selected Bibliography:
Anslinger, Harry J. “Marijuana, Assassin of Youth.” Reader’s Digest (1938).
https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/e1930/mjassassinrd.htm.
Chasteen, John Charles. Getting High: Marijuana in World History. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Cohen, Michael M. “Jim Crow’s Drug War: Race, Coca Cola, and the Southern Origins of Drug Prohibition.” Southern Cultures 12, no. 3 (Fall 2006): 55-79.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/26391000.
Smith, Stuff, and the Onyx Club Boys. “If You’re a Viper.” March 13, 1936. Audio
recording. 00:03:20. hTps://soundcloud.com/stella-blue-1/youre-a-viper-stuff-smith-and.
Webb, Chick, and His Orchestra. “When I Get Low I Get High.” April 7, 1936. Audio recording. 00:02:29. https://archive.org/details/JV-10685-1936-
Qmepcnc4nyXcKRPmrZTHeJGTKJ9GTuBdXVxd7JbqxZMi3e.mp3.
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