RT Journal
A1 Goodwin DW
T1 THe college drug scene
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD March 3
VO 207
IS 9
SP 1721
OP 1722
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03150220137041
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150220137041
AB Negro demonstrators at a midwestern university recently demanded, among other things, an end to "degrading research." What they wanted ended was not research itself but themselves as subjects of research.If the subjects of this book share the same sentiment, it will be understandable. Members of a "colony" of drug users living near the University of California at Berkeley, they and their comrades in the "psychedelic revolution" are being analyzed, dissected, and descended upon, notebook in hand, by a growing army of psychiatrists, sociologists, and other inquisitive types. The results, to date, have been disappointing. Clearly, a substantial number of individuals in their teens and 20s are experimenting with marihuana, LSD, and other "mindexpanders"; some use these drugs regularly. But the nature and dimensions of the problem remain obscure. This book to some extent illustrates why.The author, an assistant professor of criminology at the University of California, together with