know your dope fiend!

Apr. 11, 1938

to dramatize a crusade which the state of pennsylvania started last week against the hypnotic drug called marijuana, philadelphia's temple university's professor of Pharmacognosy, james clyde munch, undertook to describe its effects to students.

to give them an idea of its peculiar properties, he described his own experience after taking a handful of reefers (marijuana cigarettes) as an experiment. he crawled into a bottle of ink, stayed there 200 years, took a peep over the bottle's neck, ducked back and wrote a book about what he saw. when the book was done, he popped out of the inkwell, shook his wings, and flew around the world seven times.