The New York herald., 1922-07-15
CIGARETTES DRUG
GIRLS IN VILLAGE
Two Men Arrested, Accused of
Having Hasheesh, Powerful
Narcotic Weed.

A girl went to, Greenwich Village a
while ago and got home very late. In
fact. she got home the next day. She
confided in her mother, saying:
Cigarettes were passed around and
grabbed one / took only few puffs
and the lights went out. AS soon as l
woke up l came home"
The mother asked the police to ascer-
tain what kind of cigarettes were sold
in the Village that made the lights go
out after a few puffs. About the same
time another mother made similar
complaint. DR.. Carleton Simon, Deputy
Police Commissioner, in charge of the
narcotic division, sent out two of his de-
tectives, Frank Quigley and Thomas Far
rell.
Quigley and Farrell dropped into Jesus
described by the girls as the place where
they got the strange cigarettes. The de-
tectives found that 1t had a cabaret
and was frequented by emotional young
persons who called themselves students.
Trace supply to West street.
Returning night after night until they
felt well acquainted with Senor Sustas,
the detectives eventually asked him
where they could. get some of the
cigarettes of such surpassing potency
Sustas. they say. regretted having none
on the premises at the moment, but
promised to goi out and tap his source
the next day and said he would then be
in position to furnish the cigarettes at
25 cents apiece.
The next day was yesterday. The
detectives say they followed Sustas to a
poolroom in Washington street and saw
him barter with Mexican. Tomaso
Malano. who says he lives In West street.
Sustas and Malone were arrested.
Underneath his shirt, next his skim
Malano wore a belt made of silk cloth.
and within the belt. say the detectives
were sixty-five hasheesh cigarettes.
Sustas and Malano are charged with
having and offering for sale narcotic
drug.
The hasheesh thus introduced to
Greenwich Village comes from Mexico
and consists of the dried top leaves OF
the marihuana plant or Indian hemp,
but it Is exactly the same as the has
| heesh of India and its effects on some
humans is suggested by the fact that the
word assassin" comes from the Arabic
"hashishin" n"-hemp eaters. Marihuans
cigarettes have long been rolled by Mex.
/ leans of the lower class and here and
there by cowboys of the Southwest.
| Drug Used Here a Year.
Regarding hasheesh here, DIR. Simon
| said:
1--WE first heard Of it In New Yorl
about a year ago. There have beef
about ten arrests and l do not think thu
habit will spread. But it is an exceed
ingly dangerous drug and much cheape
!. than the others because Indian heml
| grows all over the world.
Its effects vary with individuals ant
races. In some cases three or four in
halations make a person unconscious
in others 1t makes them loquacious. Th
person then passes into a deep sleep
from which he wakes with headach
and an enormous appetite. The addic
eventually becomes permanently insane
In certain instances the hemispheres o
the brain are not affected in the sam
way and double consciousness results
1T crazes some persons, causing ther
to- run amuck like victims of the loc
weed. Strangely enough, there are n
New York State or Federal laws agains
traffic in this dangerous narcotic. 1t |
mentioned in the Massachusetts, anti
narcotic law and last year Health Com
missioner Copeland, at my request, ha
II barred from New York by a provisio
'Ofs the Sanitary Code :"