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From Ganja to Crack: Caribbean Participation in the Underground Economy in Brooklyn, 1976-1986. Part 1. Establishment of the Marijuana EconomyAnsley HamidThe International Journal of the Addictions, 26(6),615-6281991
From Ganja to Crack: Caribbean Participation in the Underground Economy in Brooklyn, 1976-1986. Part 2. Establishment of the Cocaine (and Crack) EconomyAnsley HamidThe International Journal of the Addictions, 26(7),729-7381991
Crack: New Directions in Drug Research. Part 1. Differences between the Marijuana Economy and the Cocaine/Crack EconomyAnsley HamidThe International Journal of the Addictions, 26(8),825-8361991
Crack: New Directions in Drug Research. Part 2. Factors Determining the Current Functioning of the Crack Economy-A Program for Ethnographic ResearchAnsley HamidThe International Journal of the Addictions, 26(9),913-9221991
The Development Cycle of a Drug Epidemic: The Cocaine Smoking Epidemic of 1981-1991Ansley HamidJowrnal of Psycoactive Drugs Vol. 24(4), Oct-Dec 1992
DRUGS AND PATTERNS OF OPPORTUNITY IN THE INNER CITY: THE CASE OF MIDDLE-AGED, MIDDLE-INCOME COCAINE SMOKERSAnsley Hamidln Drugs, Crime, and Social Isolation: Barriers to Urban Opportunity. Adele Harrell and George Peterson, eds. Chapter 7, pp. 209-238. Washington: Urban Institute Press.1992
Emergent Models of Crack Distribution Johnson, Bruce, Ansley Hamid, and Harry Sanabria(T. Miecjkowski, ed). Crime and Drugs: A Reader. Boston: Allyn-Bacon, pp.56-781991
Personal Safety in Dangerous Places: Creating and Maintaining Physical Safety of Ethnographers and Subjects in a Study of Crack Distribution.Williams, Terry, Eloise Dunlap, Bruce D. Johnson, and Ansley Hamidin a Study of Crack Distribution. Journal of
Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 21, No.3, pp. 343-374.		1992
How Drug Legalization Would Improve Conditions in the Inner CityAnsley HamidIn C. R~itsch and J.Baker (eds) Yearbook for Ethnomedicine and the Study of Consciousness. Issue 5. Berlin: Verlag fOr Wissenschaft und Bildung, Chap. 4, p.117-158.1996
GENDER, POWER, AND ALTERNATIVE LIVING ARRANGEMENTS IN THE INNER-CITY CRACK CULTURELISA MAHER ELOISE DUNLAP BRUCE D. JOHNSON ANSLEY HAMIDJournal of Research in Crime and Punishment, Vo1.33, No.2 (May), p.181-205.1996
The Heroin Epidemic in New York City: Current Status and Prognoses.Ansley Hamid, Ric Curtis, Alix Conde, Kate McCoy, Judy McGuire, Bill Bushell, Karen Brimberg, Suzana Maia.Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, Vol. 29, No.4 (Oct-Dec).1997
The Ganja Complex: Rastafari and Marijuana.Ansley HamidLanham, MD: Lexington Books2002
Synchronic and Diachronic Variations in Cannabis Use in Trinidad, West Indies:Ansley HamidPrincipal Investigator (doctoral research under advisement of Professor Lambros Comitas, Columbia University, Teachers College, Joint Program in Applied Anthropology and Education).1978
The Militarization of Social ScienceAnsley HamidUnpublished Manuscript2012
Getting High: Ganja Man and his Socio-Economic Milieu.Dreher, Melanie CreaganCaribbean Studies, Vol. 16,
No. 2, (July 1976), pp. 219-231.
1976
Women and Cannabis: The Jamaican ExampleDreher, Melanie CreaganPanel Presentation, Sixth Anual NORML Conference, December 10, 7-151977
Working Men and Ganja: Marijuana Use in Rural JamaicaDreher, Melanie Creagan. Institute for the Study of Human Issues.
Philadelphia.
1992
Marihuana and Work: Cannabis Smoking on a Jamaican Sugar EstateDreher, Melanie CreaganHuman Organization, Vol. 42,
No.1.
1983
Marijuana use Among Women: an Anthropological View.Dreher, Melanie Creaganin Conceptual Issues of Alcohol and Substance Abuse. The Hawthore Press.
1984
School Children and Ganja: Youthful Marijuana Consumption in Rural Jamaica. Dreher, Melanie CreaganAnthropology and
Education Quartlerly. Volume 15,		1984
The Evolution of a Roots DaughterDreher, Melanie CreaganJournal of Psychoactive Drugs. Vol 19(2). Apr-Jun 1987
Newborn Outcomes With Maternal Marihuana Use in Jamaican WomenJanice S. Hayes, Melanie C. Dreher, J. Kevin NugentPEDIATRIC: NIJRSING'M",ch-Anril 1988IVol. 141No. 21988
Poor and Pregnant: Perinatal Ganja use in Rural Jamaica. Dreher, Melanie CreaganAdvances in Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Vol.
8(1) 1989.
1989
Effects of Marijuana Use during Pregnancy on Newborn CryBarry M. Lester
Dreher, Melanie Creagan		Child Development. 1989, 60,765-771.1989
Five-year Follow-up of Rural Jamaican Children whose Mothers used Marijuana during Pregnancy1.S. H,ycs. Ph.D.. R.N.. R. Lampart. M.P.H.. F.R.C.S.. M.C. Dreher, Ph.D.. R.N. and L. Morgan. S.R.N.\V.1. Mod. J. (1991) 40:1201991
Drug Consumption and Distribution in Jamaica: An Ethnographic StudyDreher, Melanie. Dolores Shapiro, Anne Stoddard, Sheba Alfred, Kenneth Broad, Audrey Charlton, Mary Kenny, Lisa Miller, Scott
Seifel. 		Department of State, United States
Embassy, Kingston, Jamaica. International Narcotics Matters. August, 1994		1994
DRUG CONSUMPTION AND DISTRIBUTION IN JAMAICA: A NATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY C. Dreher, Ph.D., R.N .. F.A.A.N.Jamaica, CEWG December, 360-3691994
Prenatal Marijuana Exposure and Neonatal Outcomes in Jamaica: An Ethnographic Study, Melanie C Dreher, PhD: Kevin Nugent, PhD; and Rebekan Hudgins. MAPediatrics, Vol. 93, No. 2, February 1994. 1994
Women and Drugs: case studies from JamaicaDreher, Melanie CreaganDrugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy, Vol. 2 1995.
1995
Crack Heads and Roots Daughters: The Therapeutic Use of Cannabis in Jamaica Dreher, Melanie CreaganWomen and Cannabis: Medicine, Science, and Sociology (Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics).2005
Maternal-Child Health and Ganja in Jamaica. Health Care in the Caribbean and Central AmericaDreher, Melanie CreaganStudies in Third World Societies, n. 30, Dec. 1984. 1984
The Complete Caribbeana 1900-1975: A Bibliographic Guide to the Scholarly LiteratureLambros ComitasVol I Peoples, Vol. 2 Institutions, Vol. 3 Resources, Vol. 4 Indexes. Kraus Thomas Organization, Millwood, N.Y. 2193 pp. (Selected by Choice as one of the "outstanding books for 1978").1977
Ganja in Jamaica: A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marihuana Use. Lambros Comitas with Vera RubinMouton, The Hague, Paris, 205 p. Published in paperback as Ganja in Jamaica: The Effects of Marijuana Use. Anchor Press/Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1976, 217 p. Reprinted in part as "Cannabis, Society, and Culture" in Kelleher, M. E., B. MacMurray, and T. M. Shapiro (eds) Drugs and Society: A Critical Reader, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 1983, pp. 212- 218.
1975
"The Social Nexus of Ganja in Jamaica,"Lambros ComitasCannabis and Culture. Vera Rubin (ed.), Mouton, The Hague, Paris pp. 119-132. Reprinted in Hamid, Ansley (ed.), Drugs and Drug Abuse: A Reader, Copley Publishing Group, 1988, pp. 40-50.
1975
Effects of Chronic Smoking of Cannabis in JamaicaLambros Comitas with Vera Rubin Report of the Research Institute for the Study of Man to the Center for the Studies of Narcotic and Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, 519 p. Reprinted serially in The Daily Gleaner, Kingston, Jamaica, June 3--August 11.
1972
"Cannabis and Work in Jamaica: A Refutation of the Amotivational Syndrome." Lambros ComitasChronic Cannabis Use. Rhea L. Dornbush, Max Fink and Alfred M. Freedman (eds.), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 283, pp. 24-32.
1976
“Cannabis, Society and Culture” Lambros Comitas with Vera RubinDrugs and Society: A Critical Reader. Maureen E, Kelleher, Bruce K. MacMurray, Thomas M Shapiro, eds. Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa. pp. 249-256.1983
"El vínculo social de la marijuana en Jamaica."Lambros Comitas "El vínculo social de la marijuana en Jamaica."1978
Opprobrium and Persecution: Hashish Users in Urban Greece. Lambros ComitasResearch Institute for the Study
of Man. Final Research Report for the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 445 p.
1982
The Earth Most Strangest ManMortimo Planno New York, Cifas Manuscripts1969