Mississippi Stem Rub, 1970’s

Research associate and later director Carlton Turner (former Drug Czar under Ronald Reagan) examining cannabis grown at the University of Mississippi’s Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences Medical Gardens, Mississippi  late 1970’s    

Government Grown, 1978

“Alice O’Leary-Randall inspects the cannabis plants grown at the University of Mississippi during her 1978 visit. On her left is Dr. Bob Willette of NIDA and on her right is Dr. Carlton Turner, former drug abuse advisor to President Ronald Read More …

Cosmic Honey, 1972

Cosmic Honey   “The federal government long claimed that it knew evreything about marijuana that was necessary; it was, as US Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger used to say, “a killer drug.” But during the sixties, as middle class college students Read More …

UMISS Garden for Higher Learning, 1968

“Most of the illicit material in the 1960s came from Mexico. So, in collaboration with the D.E.A. And the Mexican government, we acquired those seeds. Later, we acquired others from Colombia, Thailand, Jamaica, India, Pakistan and places in the Middle Read More …