The hasheesh eater1857

<p>When <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/fitz-hugh-ludlow">Fitz Hugh Ludlow</a> was in college, he found a jar of cannabis extract at his pharmacy, deduced that this was the fabled “hashish” described in <i>The Arabian Nights</i> and <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/alexandre-dumas/the-count-of-monte-cristo/chapman-and-hall"><i>The Count of Monte Cristo</i></a>, and gave in to his curiosity by swallowing a spoonful. His life would never be the same.</p> <p><i>The Hashish Eater</i> attempts to describe the bizarre distortions of perspective and imagination that Ludlow experienced on extraordinarily large doses of cannabis. Because cannabis was mostly unknown in the English-speaking world at that time, he didn’t have the vocabulary to describe his “trips,” and he couldn’t...