Fritz Hugh Ludlow’s 1857 The Annotated Hasheesh Eater is now out on CD-ROM. There’s a sample annotated chapter on the site, and it’s pretty fascinating.
The CD’s reading interface, if the sample web page is anything to go by, isn’t terribly pretty. But the book seems interesting enough that I might just get it. Apparently, there are some other 19th-century works about cannabis on the CD. Good going for the editor: in this age of renewed “reefer madness” scaremongering and awful levels of misinformation, I love it that books like this are still coming out.
