How hashish moved through the apothecaries, parlors, and séance rooms of nineteenth-century America — carried by poets, occultists, and restless young men looking for something beyond the ordinary world.
Long before cannabis became a wellness product or a policy debate, it was the contraband muse of French literary giants — and one ambitious psychiatrist’s key to unlocking the human mind.
From peasant folklore and papal prohibition to Victorian tinctures and the U.S. Pharmacopeia, the story of cannabis medicine is older, stranger, and more consequential than most people suspect.
