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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