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Documents on Police Bureaucracy's Conspiracy Against Human Rights of Opiate Addicts & Constitutional Rights of Medical Profession Causing Mass Breakdown of Urban Law & Order.
NY: privately published by the author, December 1970. First edition (one of c. 300 copies). 4to. Original duplicated sheets, stapled. 18pp., plus cover page and table of contents.
SIGNED and inscribed by Allen Ginsberg on the front cover in blue ink – “300 Xmas copies 1970 N.Y.C.” - with small holograph emendations by him on pages 10 and 18.
A bibliography compiled by Ginsberg of source materials on “Addiction Politics, 1922-1970”, “ ‘Crime in Streets’ Caused by Addiction Politics”, “Narcotics Agents Peddling Drugs”, and “CIA Involvement with Opium Traffic at Source”.
The compendium was re-duplicated in January 1971 by Gotham Book Mart, and the text was later published in The Realist #89 (“The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog”) in March-April 1971.
Near Fine.
