where hemp is used in every conceivable form, and where the lights, sounds, odors, and surroundings are all arranged so as to intensify and enhance the effects......... The next night the author with his friend visited a "hasheesh house" on or near Forty-second Street west of Broadway. The hashish smokers there, the author was informed, "are about evenly divided between Americans and foreigners; indeed, the place is kept by a Greek, who has invested a great deal of money in it. All the visitors, both male and females are of the better classes, and absolute secrecy is the rule. The house has been opened about two years, I believe, and, the number of regular habitues is daily on the increase. " Dr. Kane was also told: "Smokers from different cities, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and especially New Orleans, tell me that each city has its hemp retreat, but none so elegant as this." The maintenance of secrecy, the date of opening (presumably 1881), and other aspects of the New York City account suggest that when police pressure was put on opium-smoking dens in New York City and elsewhere after 1875, their place was taken by "hasheesh hells" modeled after them. Liquid cannabis plus ergot-the drug from which LSD was later derived-were taken by Frank Dudley Beane, M.D., and reported by him in the Buffalo Medical Journal in 1884. Dr. Beane's "trip," after a period of "hilarious exhalation and constant volubility," ended in deep sleep. The ready availability of hashish in candy form in Baltimore was reported in 1894 by Dr. George Wheelock Grover in his book, Shadows Lifted or Sunshine Restored in the Horizon of Human Lives: A Treatise on the Morphine, Opium, Cocaine, Chloral and Hashish Habits: "Once while passing down the leading business street in Baltimore, I saw upon a sign above my head, 'Gungawalla Candy, Hashish Candy.' I purchased a box of the candy and, while waiting with two or three medical friends at the Eutaw House in Baltimore, de...
