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Author: Coles, Robert
Title: The Grass Pipe
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston, Massachusetts
Pages: 112 pp.
Date: 1969
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Social problems
Annotation:This short novel, aimed at a juvenile audience, tells the experiences of three boys who decide to smoke marijuana during their freshman year in high school.
Viewpoint towards drugs: negative.




Author: Matthiessen, Peter
Title: At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Publisher: Random House, New York
Pages: 373 pp.
Date: 1965
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Perception
Annotation:In a story about missionaries in the Amazon, Matthiessen incorporates a detailed study of the South American Indians' use of a drug called "ayahausca", evidently in the hallucinogen family.
Viewpoint towards drugs: neutral.






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