Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Purchased by the Museum of Drugs Paraphernalia and Related Antiquities May 2009

42nd Street New York

'There is a large community of hashish smokers in this city, who are daily forced to indulge their morbid appetites...'

'This,' he said, in a whisper, 'is the public room, where anyone having pipe or lozenge, and properly attired, may enter and indulge - eat, smoke, or dream, as best suits him.'

'I see that you are fast approaching Hashishdom. Is there not a sense of perfect rest and strange, quiet happiness produced by it?''