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. | | INDIANA UNIVERSITY
: : Box 70
. BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

31 Jan. 1961

Dre Lawrence Kolb
6645 32nd Street, N. W.
Washington D. C.

Dear Dr, Kolb:

I suppose that you know of the work of the Joint Committee of
the ABA & AMA on Narcotic Drugs and of the attack on this by the
Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Since the committee's work, especially
the interim report which contains the statement by Ploscowe and
another by King, was never really made available tothe public I

' approached the Indiana University Press about it and they have
agreed to publish the interim and finalreports with a brief
introduction by mee If you are willing to and feel that it is
worth it I would appreciate anything that you would do to give
this book a boost. I hope that it will get at least as much
circulation as Anslinger's attack on it has already had.

In connection with the above there is a possibility that I
may Write an article for Harpers on the Federal Narcotics Bureau
stressing the activities which it engages in with respect to
policy discussion and other matters not connected with law
enforcement. JI probably have enough material on hand myself for
the article but I have written to a couple other people who
have also had their troubles with Anslinger. One of these, Dr.
Karl Bowman, suggested to methat you might know something about
the LaGuardia report on marihuana and the treatment it received.
If you have information on this which you would not.object..to my
using I'd appreciate it. Alse;-tf-you" Have other information
from your own experience pertaining to the Bureau's propaganda ~
activity, suppression of information, Haxrassment of individual
heretics, and so on I'd appreciate it also. If you would care to |
make a statement which I might quote I'd be pleased with that. Also,
if you like, I will be happy to send you anything I write about. a
these matters for your o. ke. prior to publications. 7

I suppose that you probably know that the Russell Sage
Foundation supported the Joint Committee financially but declined
to publish the interim report except in limited numbers for the
use of the committee and the Houses of Delegates oft he two
associations. I have not been able to discover the reasons for
this. .

Appropos of the possible Harpers article it appears to me
that you could yourself write such an article from your own
experience. JI wish very much that you would do so. If not I
think you should at least write down a record of some of your
experiences along these lines and either publish it or make some
copies of it sothat the information would not be loste

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