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Author: Douglas, Michael
Title: Dealing or the Berkeley-to-Boston-Forty-Brick-Lost-Bag Blues
Publisher: Knopf, New York
Pages: 222 pp.
Date: 1971
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Escapism
Annotation:A student at Harvard flies to Berkeley to score marijuana for a Boston dealer. This turns into a comic chase with a funny cast of collegiate characters getting caught in a narcotics raid with 40 bricks of marijuana.
Viewpoint towards drugs: positive.




Author: Farina, Richard
Title: Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Publisher: Random House, New York
Pages: 329 pp.
Date: 1966
Format: Novel
Descriptor: Experiential mode
Annotation:The story of a student's picaresque travels across the United States and into Cuba, where marijuana and peyote experiences play a regular role in the life of the hip sub-cultures he visits.
Viewpoint towards drugs: positive.






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