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Show QiM .SALT LAKH TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MnliMNd. DKCKM BEB :;(. Vm DrugThat Drives ItsVicii ms Mad irown Raised in Any Backyard and Smoked in Cigarettes, Marihuana Is the Most Deadly Narcotic 4P Now Fought by the K 5r5 U. S. This is Artist Jamas Hammond's Concaption of How, at the Parties in Greenwich Village, the Smokers S.t About the Room or Recline ia the Most Comfortable Positions and Recount to Each Other Their Thought and Visions. And All the Time One Ego of the Smoker Stand by Obkerving, While the Other Ego Goo Through the Most Ridiculous and Outlandish Caper. BE for twenty years and even then find respite from the grave, the physique of a giant is required to withstand the ravages of hemp d that for time and still be other than a maniac. And by hemp are meant both the Indian and the Ameri one-thir- or marican brands, huana, or La Griefa, or La Mota, as the Latins term the loco weed. INHALATION METHOD. The smoker of marihuana Demonstrating How Marihuana It Smoked in Cupped Hand, Where Air Minglai with soon finds that he has difficulty the Smoke Before It l Inhaled, the Faihion Followed in New York' Greenwich Village in concentrating on anything. by Devoteet of Haiheenh and Other Drug. His mind leaps r 'om idea to And many times he reidea. I BRUCE GRAN By One can literally hear a pin dir. first subject after the pasto a turns distances loom before the orgies, rivaling those drop. aGreat sage of hours and continues where he step across the room appears HASHEESH Oriental days, are eyes left oft. It is then that he is verging like a long journey. A pleasant sensaon madness. New in being staged nightly Seconds tion., is long drawn-ou- t After a few puffs of marihuana the York's Greenwich Village. Among a seem like hours. first sensation, to the habitual user, is certain set, no party Is considered comDuring this phase the marihuana one of oblivion to surrounding objects smoker a senserene enjoys pleasant, plete without the drug. or any apwithout unconsciousness, of comfort. His mind seems deThe participants in these narcotic sation parent check to or deviation from the tached from his body and another perrituals use Cannabis Americana Inordinary series of mental acts required sonality stands off and whimsically and to perform any labor, mental or physstead of Cannabis Indlea the Mexnotes what to be amusedly appear ical. The mere gesture of raising the ludicrous actions corof the highly ican loco weed or marihuana instead of cigarette to the lips seems to take self. poreal hours. bhang, hasheesh or Oriental hemp. Hasheesh was long known among Marihuana is a weakei sister of InId Greenwich Village the smoker is the ancients as the "increaser of pleas"high" or "high powered" at teellng dian hemp. But its effects, produced ure," "the cementer of pleasure, "the this use of a of than amount stage. through greater laugh mover." It stimulated and prothe latter drug, are the same in the end duced dreams. After this first sensation the smoker Restraints were cast madness. The addict, after five years off and becomes excited, but not in a violent delirious fantasies gaudy, of smoking, becomes violently insane, seized upon the user. He was in is seized with a strange desperation the throes of a that leads to violence and later to a fiendish desire to mutilate or kill. Marihuana smoking appeals to a cer- ill hasheesh, tain bohemian, free thinking, imaginative group of artists, writers, musicians and others who form an esthetic group in New York's Latin Quarter. For hasheesh has been eulo H is gized in history and tradition. the nepenthe given by Helen of Troy to Telemachus that he might forget all sorrow. The narcotic division of the New York Police Department has found this drug one of the hardest to stamp out. In New York State it is illegal to possess or grow the drug or plant Instances have been discovered where it is actually sowed in parks, back yards, window boxes and even in cemeteries. Only a few days ago detectives visited a vacant lot on East One Hundred and Twenty-fourt- h street, New York, where they found the loco weed flourishing. It is a hardy plant and grows readily In the New York climate. When the plant has blossomed, the seeds and tender under-leave- s are harvested and dried in a cool, dark place. They are crushed, mixed with alcohol and allowed to dry again. They are later flavored with red pepper, sugar and sometimes with some aromatic incense. Then they are made into cigarettes. The smoke has a not unpleasant smell. But the effects of the drug are worthy of a lengthy description. Smoking marihuana is but a step farther than the puff of a cigarette. The young girl who has learned to Inhale her tobacco does not hesitate 'to try it just once," to take a "drag" at the dangerous weed. The drug is easily procured. Being made into cigarettes makes it possible to even puff it in public without detecThe Mexican and Cuban eletion. ments in New York are familiar with the weed and most of the purveyors are of Latin extraction. The first time the drug is inhaled the only effect Is one of hilarity, quickly followed by drowsiness. But the second time and thereafter the smoker enjoys more pronounced sensations, rivaling even those produced by opium. Marihuana is not a heart stimulant But it spurs the nervous system to a mad gait. It is thus that the smoker experiences the feeling that all sensuous things are greatly magnified or accentuated. A dap of the hand sounds like thun- - SCENE OF PLANTING Marihuana, or Cannabi Americana Growing Profuely on a Vacant Lot on Eait 124th St. New York. V I7T TTM i nwswajBjBjmajBj CLOSE-U- Girl I ftoning the Loco Weed Into Cigarette Fern So That the Fumes Mey Be Eail Inhaled. HOW ITS PREPARED Making a Cigarette from the Dried Leave and Seedr of Marikaac U.ually Mixed with Red Pepper and Incense, They Are Sometime Smoked Raw. with loss of muscular Hasheesh was named from "Hassan The Old Man of the Mountain." From the name also came the word "assassin." His followers chewed the hemp before they were excited to commit murder. W hile the slave to opium may live ," He is in a i. state of "bien etre," as opposed to "malaise." Joyousness, wildest fancies flit through the mind. All are amus One want to, and oftefe daw, ing. puff out one's cheeks and blow out the air forcibly. Now there are no deliriums pr hal sense, or sensuously lucinations. No visions. The mind conjures up many odd thoughts and ideas. Also visions appear which cause much amusement by the very thought of how funny they would be if they All is light and life and were real. brightness. It is during this period of mental excitation that the drug get its hold on The m o u t b becomes its victim. parched. The vitality is lowered. The face and lips become as white as chalk There is almost no pulse at the wrist, and the heart action is scarcely per It takes a strong erill to ceptible. shake off the toils of the drug and think d of stimulants There is such a aversion to physical exertion that one does not even want to reach out for a drink of gin or whiskey. deep-roote- I P OF WEED. Sbown Holding Toward the Camera Use Deadly Marihuana Freshly Plucked. But when a stimulant is taken, the heart begins to perform again. The smoker should take a drink of lemon Juice now, a cup of hot, black coffee, and then lie down for an hour's sleep. The after effect of the drug is not bad. The head is clear and the hand is firm. It is only after continual use that the mind snaps. At the parties in Greenwich Village the smokers sit about the room or recline in the most comfortable positions and recount to each other their thoughts and visions. And all the time one ego of the smoker stands by observing, while the other ego goes through the most ridiculous and outlandish capers. Pleasurable sensations of the body are increased by the use of the drug. A caress appears prolonged through the deceptivenaos it practice on the brain, and the drug's seductive charm and its trivial after effects all act as a lure to ensnare the user to addiction. But the Mexicans have not named the plant amiss when they call it loco weed. For when a peon has smoked a pipeful of it he tarns completely Insane, runs amuck and kills. Yet marihuana grows quite freely In and around New York. You might say that It actually nourishes right under the very noses of the authorities. Thews same authorities who have lost their progress saprseilon of drugs by the seliuresTHilgOfl.OOO worth supposed to have been handled by the Roth sU la drag ring. This America hemp to being planted iahe Pleat, right in window Soxes, In backyards, Id vacant lota. In dumping grounds. Id parks, even, for harvesting next Summer A young Porto Rlcan arrested recently told th authorities be had sowed a quantity of marihuana ia Central Park. A diligent search revealed some of the hemp actually growing there. Detectives recently discovered a lot full of the "loco weed" in an uptown section. This particular plot of ground was owned by a man who kept a bird and animal store nearby. He freely admitted thai he bad sown the seed "which he obtained from a friend on But be said he used the Long Island." hemp seed to teed his pigeons. As no Intent of criminal action could be found In bis case he was not arrested, but his field of hemp was destroyed. It was on the outskirts of the Latin colony and had the word gone around as to what was actually growing in this lot there would bar been a stampede on It Tb truth of th matter Is that there Is no Federal law to cover this drug. Only a few States have adopted any legislation regulatory regarding It. Among these are the States which border en Mexico, where the ravages of the drug are familiar to all. While It Is Illegal to possess or ase the drug In New York one can go Into at least forty other States where there Is no law covering It and hay ft or 'last enm grow It as one rttoaes drastic regutatloB win enm Is certain, considering th fact that Mexico baa long ago made It Illegal to posses or sk this maddening r |