This huge anthology explores the many roles of Cannabis in Eastern and Western culture over the past several hundred years. Comprised primarily of excerpted material from many dozens of literary sources (including the 1895 New York Herald piece from which the book derives its title), the book gives great insight to the uses of pot in many different times and places, as well as the changing language used in talking about pot, bunches of recipes from different eras of Cannabis cuisine, and depictions of Cannabis consumption in the visual arts.