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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1954)
TUESDAY, APRIL IS, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON ACT FOURTEEN Beirut Hashish Smoker's Den May Be Disappointment . .... . . . . . 1 - IID.MMlk R THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The wickedest thing you'll see in a Beirut hashish smokers' den Is an Esquire calendar on us wau. Anyone expecting to see Oriental vice at Its worst would be sadly disappointed. Doesn't even com pare with newspaper stories about marijuana parties In the United States. Hashish Is something like mart limna. hut comes (rom a different plant. The plant flourishes in Leb anon s ncu OL a wn draws such a iat price that peas ants are tempted to neglect wheat and fruit growing in favor of hashish. Regularly, the govern ment destroys hashish plantations, only to have them crop up again when the government turns its back. Imagine you're pretending to be drunk and almost a deaf mute in the company of an Arab. Tho en trance to the den has an atmos phere of Oriental mystery. B Is lo cated inside a walled compound in the dark port district of Beirut. In side, after the ""tial whispered conversation through a tiny win dow in the main gate, the smoke filled den is well lighted. Around the walls, seedy clients sit quietly on low straw-bottomed stools. At Intervals, a waiter makes the rounds with a hashish pipe, giving each man a quick puff. . The pipe la a cup-shaped burner set on top of a bottle of water, through which the smoke is fil tered. The bamboo stem is about two feet long. After each puff, the customers burst into fits of cough ing. Otherwise, all is quiet and orderly, ' Advertisements from American magazines and Hollywood pinups plaster the walls. The most dar ing la the Esquire calendar, fea turing a girl in a transparent negligee. Clients wore Western clothes, with only an occasional red fez giving the place an Oriental touch. All were men. Almost all were from the lowest level of life. By American standards,, the hashish smoke was cheap roughly SO cents a puff. For s dollar, an experienced addlot could have a big evening, But a dollar repre ' sents a big part of a month's wages to these men. One blind fel low spent his days begging on street corners so he could enjoy hashish at night. The other Clients iwere mostly porters, beggars, lickpockets and. unemployed hood ums. Instead of stimulating these people to violence or excess, the blue smoke of the hashish pipe led them into a dream world far from the sordid lite of Beirut's slums. The more they smoked, the quieter they became. My guide ex plained that most of them were. "If these people were not dream- guide explained. "Remember this: having dream romances with the ins from hashish, they would be no hashish addict ever goes Com Esquire girl on the wall. I making trouble on the atrcets," the munist." . 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