Albert Goldman papers, 1953-1994

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Series V: Grass Roots/Drugs

Goldman was very interested in marijuana use in America. In 1979 he publish a highly readable account of the marijuana industry Grass Roots. He also researched cocane smuggling.



Box A6 Folder 17 Forcade Mss.


Chic Eder:



Box A27 Selection of letters between Chic Eder and Albert Goldman, 1971-1974 (sent by Jane Krupp to Deborah Karl for possible publication, 24 February1995), 1971-1974



Box A26 Folder 14 Chic Eder Vs Weberman


Box A26 Folder 15 Chic Eder Miscellaneous


Box A26 Folder 18 Chic Eder to Tall Paul, 11/25/73-11/9/74


Box A26 Folder 19-21 Chic Eder Correspondence, 7/1/72-12/19/72


Box A26 Folder 22-23 Chic Eder Correspondence, 2/16/74-12/11/74



Box 101 Folder 1 Chic Eder Correspondence, 9/9/71-6/30/72


Box 101 Folder 2 Chic's Miami Bust


Box 101 Folder 3 Chic In The Swamp


Box 101 Folder 5 Chic In Journal


Box 101 Folder 6 Chic'a Capers


Box 101 Folder 7 Chic's History


Flyin' High:



Box A26 Folder 1 Flyin' High Script


Box A26 Folder 2 Flyin' High Revisions


Box A26 Folder 9 Flyin' High Chapters


Box A26 Folder 10&11 Flyin' High Screenplay



Box 66 Folder 20 Flyin' High Book


Box 66 Folder 21 Flyin' High Movie



Box 101 Folder 8 Flyin' High Pitch


Box 101 Folder 9 Preparatory material for Dope Book


"Grass Roots":



Box A26 Folder 17 "Inside Dope" (Manuscript)



Box 86 Folder 1-10 "Grass Roots" (Manuscript)



Box 6 Folder 1 Medical: Psychological


Box 6 Folder 2 & 3 Medical Studies


Box 6 Folder 4 Medical: Therapeutic


Box 6 Folder 5 Driving: Alcohol vs. Cannabis


Box 6 Folder 6 Mexico


Box 6 Folder 7 Movies


Box 6 Folder 8 New Age Copyright


Box 6 Folder 9 Nomelclature-Vocab.


Box 6 Folder 10 Norad


Box 6 Folder 11 Norml


Box 6 Folder 12 Off-Loading


Box 6 Folder 13 One-Shot Contract


Box 6 Folder 14 One-Shot


Box 6 Folder 15 Opium


Box 6 Folder 16 Paraphranala


Box 6 Folder 17 Paraquat


Box 6 Folder 18 PCP


Box 6 Folder 19 Photo Research


Box 6 Folder 20 Photographs


Box 6 Folder 21 President's Message


Box 6 Folder 22 Prohibition


Box 6 Folder 23 Radio


Box 6 Folder 24 The Red Baron


Box 6 Folder 25 Releases


Box 6 Folder 26 Revenues


Box 6 Folder 27 St. Marta - Barranquila


Box 6 Folder 28 Sky River Gang


Box 6 Folder 29 Smuggling


Box 6 Folder 30 Smuggling Dope


Box 6 Folder 31 Airplane Smuggling


Box 6 Folder 32 Smuggling by Air: DC 4


Box 6 Folder 33 Smuggling by Air: Cessna 310


Box 6 Folder 34 Smuggling by Sea: Beginner's Luck


Box 6 Folder 35 Smuggling by Sea: Master's Choice


Box 6 Folder 36 Cigarett Smuggling


Box 6 Folder 37 Stancil, Raymond


Box 6 Folder 38 State Department


Box 6 Folder 39 Steele, John David


Box 6 Folder 40 Under-Cover Agent


Box 6 Folder 41 Usage


Box 6 Folder 42 U.S. Drug Budget, 1976



Box 69 Folder 18 Mezzrow, Mezz (clarinetist)



Box 6 Folder 43 Werbell, Mitchell


Box 6 Folder 44 War Against Drugs


Box 6 Folder 45 Pirates



Box 31 Folder 1 Controled Substances


Box 31 Folder 2 Cultuvation


Box 31 Folder 3 Cunningham, Ralph


Box 31 Folder 4-6 Colombia Press


Box 31 Folder 7 Colombian Mafia


Box 31 Folder 8 Colombia Photographs


Box 31 Folder 9 "The Colombian Connection" in New York magazine


Box 31 Folder 10-11 Customs


Box 31 Folder 12-14 DEA Mag., Fact Sheet


Box 31 Folder 15-20 DEA


Box 31 Folder 21 Dealing


Box 31 Folder 22 Drugs: Legal


Box 31 Folder 23 Enterint teh new age of pot


Box 31 Folder 24 Florida



Box 31a Folder 1-2 Legislation



Box 37 Folder 1 Fort Meyer, Fl.


Box 37 Folder 2 Grass Roots Final


Box 37 Folder 3 Grass Roots Rejects


Box 37 Folder 4 Grass Roots: Drug Bosses


Box 37 Folder 5 Grass Roots: Correspondence


Box 37 Folder 6 Guajira


Box 37 Folder 7 Guns


Box 37 Folder 8 Hashish


Box 37 Folder 9 Hash Smuggling


Box 37 Folder 10 Hemp


Box 37 Folder 11 Heroin


Box 37 Folder 12 History


Box 37 Folder 13 Informants


Box 37 Folder 14 Introductions


Box 37 Folder 15 IRS


Box 37 Folder 17 Kaki & Mr. K.


Box 37 Folder 18 Kaki (Legal)


Box 37 Folder 19 LaGuardia Airport


Box 37 Folder 20 Legislation 1977


Box 37 Folder 21 Law: New York


Box 37 Folder 22 Decriminalization


Box 37 Folder 23 Law


Box 37 Folder 24 Maps


Box 37 Folder 25 Medical


Box 37 Folder 26 Medical: Chronic Use



Box A26 Folder 3 Sullivan, Tom


Box A26 Folder 4-7 Forcade, Tom


Box A26 Folder 8 Forcade Interviews


Box A26 Folder 12 Drug Argot



Box 16 Folder 7 Grass Roots



Box 17 Folder 9-12 Original manuscript, incomplete



Box 65 Folder 1 ACLU


Box 65 Folder 2-3 Airplanes


Box 65 Folder 4 Assassins Club


Box 65 Folder 5 Bob Bertels


Box 65 Folder 6 Boats: Sail


Box 65 Folder 7 Boats: Speed


Box 65 Folder 8 Bibliography


Box 65 Folder 9 Brotherhood Eternal Love


Box 65 Folder 10 Buccaneer


Box 65 Folder 11 Kenny Burnstine


Box 65 Folder 12 Business


Box 65 Folder 13 Busts


Box 65 Folder 14 Busts (Big)


Box 65 Folder 15 Busts: beating them


Box 65 Folder 16, 20, 21 Cocaine


Box 65 Folder 17 Chemistry of Cannabis


Box 65 Folder 18 Coast Guard


Box 65 Folder 19 Enforcement: Miscellaneous


Box 65 Folder 22 Colombia



Box 66 Folder 16 Dope Drivelings



Box 101 Folder 4 Memorabilia: Wed Rev; Dope Game



Box 106 Folder 1 Breakthrough


Box 106 Folder 2 Childhood and Youth


Box 106 Folder 3 I Meet the Kid


Box 106 Folder 4 Finale


Box 106 Folder 5 Colombia Today


Box 106 Folder 6 Kid Cools His Jets


Box 106 Folder 7 Crash and Burn


Box 106 Folder 8 Blow Up


Box 106 Folder 9 & 10 Flying High


Haulin' Grass Manuscript:



Box A27 Haulin' Grass. Unpublished manuscript, undated approximately 1980-81 (Autobiographical manuscript of Mr. Goldman's years in the drug game woven into the context of his trials in becoming a man in his early fifties. typed and xeroxed with handwritten corrections, pp. 1-610), undated



Box 135 Haulin' Grass. Typed manuscript (photocopy)



Box 87 Folder 10-12 Colombian Collection