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“I’m convinced this is the most brilliant attempt ever to commit psychedelic experiences to paper… second best only to taking on the psychedelic experience yourself”

– Marijuana Blog

 “Fitz Hugh Ludlow… began a tradition of pharmo-picaresque literature that would find later practitioners in William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson… Part genius, part madman, Ludlow lies halfway between Captain Ahab and P.T. Barnum, a kind of Mark Twain on hashish.”

– Terence McKenna
“This collection of information will appeal to hashish-lovers and history buffs alike”

– Cannabis Culture Magazine
FITZ HUGH LUDLOW

The Annotated
Hasheesh Eater

Edited and annotated by David Gross. Accompanied by other 19th Century works about cannabis.
Available as a hypertext CD-ROM.

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The Annotated Hasheesh Eater is as easy-to-use as a web page. You click on a hyperlink in the text and an annotation appears. There are over five hundred annotatations on a variety of topics, including:
  • obscure words (what does “rusurban” mean? what’s a “threnody?”)
  • archaic measurements (how many grains are in a drachm?)
  • forgotten social customs (what did it mean to pull someone’s nose?)
  • allusions (who said “architecture is frozen music?”)
  • ancient mythology (what did the followers of Bacchus yell, and why?)
  • censored information (what city does Ludlow refer to as “P——?”)
  • foreign phrases (what’s the “mobilium turba Quiritium?”)
  • biblical allusions (what are “the olive plants around your table?”)
  • biographical asides (why does Ludlow praise college songs so much?)
  • insight (how much marijuana is in a drachm of Tilden’s Extract?)
The CD-ROM also includes the following works:
On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah (1839) W.B. O’Shaugnessy
Cannabis indica (1843) Robley Dunglison
Cannabis sativa (1843) George B. Wood & Franklin Bache
Curious Drugs for Producing Hallucination (1850) anonymous
The Living Corpse (1853) anonymous
The Haschish (1854) John Greenleaf Whittier
The Vision of Hasheesh (1855) Bayard Taylor
The Narcotics We Indulge In: Indian Hemp (1855) James F. Johnson
The Hasheesh Eater (article) (1856) anonymous
The Apocalypse of Hasheesh (1856) Fitz Hugh Ludlow
On the Haschisch or Cannabis Indica (1857) John Bell
Tilden’s Extract (1858) anonymous
Hasheesh and its Smokers and Eaters (1858) anonymous

Requires a computer with a CD-ROM drive and a web browser such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Safari, Konqueror or Opera. Some Macintosh systems may need to install the free Joliet CD-ROM File System Extension from Joliet Volume Access to use this product. Please direct any questions about the product to David Gross (dave@eorbit.net).

You can also get The Annotated Hasheesh Eater in paperback, as well as The Hasheesh Eater’s Companion — which contains the complete text of De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Bayard Taylor’s The Vision of Hasheesh, W.B. O’Shaugnessy’s On the Preparations of the Indian Hemp, or Gunjah, many additional hashish- and opium-related writings by Ludlow, the cannabis-related medical texts Ludlow relied upon during his experiments, contemporary reviews of The Hasheesh Eater, and more.