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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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