Item #43888 Typescript manuscript of the short story "All the weed in the world," lightly corrected and signed. Fritz Leiber.

Typescript manuscript of the short story "All the weed in the world," lightly corrected and signed

[ca. 1960]. 9 typescript leaves (279 x 216 mm.); pages uniformly toned, very occasional ink annotations in the author's hand, author signature below drop title; very good and sound. Originally published in Playboy Magazine in 1961, "All the Weed in the World," is a rather disturbing short story on mental illness and drug addiction, with the cathartic ending of an arsonist setting fire to a deceased doctor's enormous pilfered stash of marijuana and flammable opiates: "[S]imply imagine that all the weed in the world has been harvested and dried and variously processed and [then] gather-in [sic] one spot close by you--all the hemp, all the hashish, all the bhang, kif, takrouri, dagga, charas, manzoul, maconha, djamba, esrar, tea, pot, and yummy...and that someone has set fire to this re[s]inous and ecstasy-loaded haystack and that you are sitting at a comfortable distance from it, inhaling the beautific smoke." Item #43888

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