Jack London, California Cannabis Pioneer
Despite California’s modern reputation for being on the forefront of cannabis culture, surprisingly little evidence of cannabis use survives from the state’s golden era when drugs were still legal.It was Jack London, California’s most celebrated author of the turn of the last century, who became the first California literary figure to describe his adventures with hashish.In that bygone era, “marihuana”(1) was still unknown to the American public. Pharmacies did however carry preparations of cannabis indica, a familiar ingredient of the 19th century pharmacopoeia used for coughs, migraines, and other complaints.
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