Word: hashish
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Cleaver proved a somewhat difficult guest. Neighbors complained about all-night parties and loudspeakers blasting out hard rock; the puritanical regime disapproved of the hashish smoking by some members of Cleaver's 15-member entourage, and were especially dismayed when Cleaver took up with a teen-age Arab girl called Malika while his wife Kathleen was away...
Aside from opium and its derivatives (heroin and morphine), no drug has had a worse press than hashish. The resinous extract from the flower heads of female Indian hemp plants (Cannabis saliva) is five to ten times as potent as bulky, unrefined marijuana. Crusaders returning from the Holy Land brought back the tale that the chief of a Moslem sect used hashish to give fanatical courage to his hirelings before they set out on murder missions. Thus, from a corruption of hashshashin, they added the word assassin to the language. What has since been learned about hashish suggests that while...
...almost the first time in a millennium, doctors have made a scientific study of the effects of hashish on a large body of men who were not professional criminals or chronically undernourished or otherwise disadvantaged. During the three years beginning in September 1968, Major Forest S. Tennant Jr. and Major C. Jess Groesbeck, at the U.S. Army hospital in Wurzburg, West Germany, had an "accessible, defined population" of 36,000 G.I.s, and a questionnaire indicated that no fewer than 16,000 of these had used hash at least once. The drug was more readily available than marijuana, and thousands...
...They apparently felt no impulse toward violence or mayhem. In fact the drug induced a condition of general torpor. Another group of 115 heavy users had severe psychotic (schizophrenic) reactions; of them, only three had stuck to hash exclusively, while 112 sought to enhance their highs with multiple drugs-hashish plus alcohol, LSD (acid) or amphetamines...
When the hash-only users were weaned of their habit (it is not a true addiction), they showed no lasting ill effects, but nearly all of those who went in for multiple drugs had to be returned to the U.S. for psychiatric treatment. In sum, the Army doctors conclude, hashish may induce a severe, long-lasting mental illness in individuals who are predisposed to schizophrenia, especially if it is used simultaneously with other powerful drugs. Some of the effects may resemble those that result from physical damage to the brain. In any case, heavy use leads to severe lung damage...