I can report 8 references in the SF Bulletin between 1855 (the year of 
Ludlow's HASHEESH EATER) and 1868 (Twain's final visit to SF), and none 
pertain to Twain.

If I can figure out a way to get a sample of Killickinnick tobacco out of my 
bundle without damage I'll get it tested and see what else it contained 
besides tobacco. Depending on the results I might even smoke some --well, 
not really. I once lit up an antique Mark Twain cigar just to see what would 
happen and it was so incredibly dry that it burst into flames in my hand 
before I could take a drag. This is a problem that you don't face with old 
whiskey, unless of course you light it.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert E Stewart" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: Countercultural Twain


> Go to cndc.ucr.edu (no www needed) and bracket your inquiry to,  say,
> 1861-1868 and  search "Hasheesh." There are a dozen references in the
> newspapers, and remember that the venerable SF Bulletin isn't included  on 
> that site.
> They knew it was narcotic, but it appears to have been in common  usage.
> Consider today's American attitude toward cigarettes compared to the 
> image I
> have of my uncle, a surgeon in WWII Europe, lighting a cigarette for a
> wounded man on a stretcher. His own children, born postwar, said "That 
> can't be
> Dad"  because of the cigarette. No one ever said Twain was not a man of 
> his
> time.
>
> Bob Stewart
>
>
> In a message dated 9/10/2013 11:58:01 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> No  single experiment could yield valid results unless it is conducted 
> over
> m=
> any years. There are too many strains of the stuff - and each affects  the
> us=
> er differently
>
> --- I have it from a reliable  source.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 10, 2013, at 10:02 AM, Hal  Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Larry, I think I am correct is  stating unequivocally that more than a 
>> few
>> on this LIST have already  performed that experiment.
>>=20
>> More usefully:  the old  Hoffman thesis about MT's possible sexual
>> adventuring in the mining  camps and then SF was based to a large extent
> on=
>
>> speculations  about the "counter-cultures" already at work in those
> regions=
> .
>>  What do we actually know about marijuana usage at the same time, and
> those=
>
>> same places?  For instance, as the reporter on theatre  in SF, I would
>> imagine that he was at least around the stuff, and knew  the smell, etc.
>>=20
>> just thinking out loud here, --Hal  B.
>>=20
>>=20
>> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Lawrence  Howe <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote=
> :
>>=20
>>>  Peter--
>>>=20
>>> I don't know if this is true, but it might  explain why some of my
> student=
> s
>>> =3D
>>> claim that  Twain reads funnier under certain conditions.  Before anyone
> o=
> n
>>> =3D
>>> this list performs this experiment  oneself,
>>=20
>> --=20
>> Prof. Harold K. Bush
>>  Professor of English
>> 3800 Lindell
>> Saint Louis  University
>> St. Louis, MO  63108
>> 314-977-3616 (w);  314-771-6795 (h)
>>  <www.slu.edu/x23809.xml>
>
>
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