"A happy, jovial mood is induced and everything takes on a humorous aspect. Tell a person at this stage that his mother has just died and he will laugh loudly at the news.
With this increased happiness, there comes a feeling of greater physical and mental strength. Nothing seems impossible. Musicians and cabaret entertainers are said to furnish one of the largest classes of users for this reason—it stimulates their imagination and temporarily increases their ability. Visions appear, sometimes of a pleasant nature, but more often gruesome.
The smoker’s sense of space and time becomes distorted. The room in which he is located may appear minute, and everything in it is an infinitesimal spot upon which he gazes curiously like some giant in a doll house. Time becomes interminable. A second seems like a minute, a minute like an hour, and an hour assumes the aspect of a whole day. The time consumed in walking from one chair to another may seem like days on end.
Noises sometimes are magnified. A match dropping to the floor will sound like a gigantic thunderclap reverberating through the universe, rolling on and on until it fades away and is succeeded by deathlike silence.
If the effects of marijuana were confined to such sensations, it would affect the average person only as a moral problem. Unfortunately, it has a still worse side.
Continued use of the drug, for example, will lead to a delirious rage in which the addicts are temporarily irresponsible and inclined to commit the most horrible and violent crimes."
I really have NO idea what these guys were smoking. What about munchies? And the horrible crimes committed against refrigerators all over the world?
You can see the pics from the article here at Modern Mechanix
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