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Here is an old-school image from the Antique Cannabis Book. Way back, cannabis was used for things that you’d never imagine in this day and age. One of the more interesting applications was as a cough medicine ingredient.

Above, is one of many different cough medicines which had cannabis as a major component. Made by Columbus Pharmacal Co., this medicine contained some highly questionable substances such as: opium, chloroform and aromatics. Aromatics? That must be like seeing ‘natural flavorings’ as an ingredient on today’s products but still having absolutely no clue what that actually means.

The company behind it, which later became known as Roxanne Labs, now makes a popular synthetic form of marijuana called Marinol.

Man am I glad science has come a long way since the 1920s. And the irony of it is that weed is responsible for way more coughs these days than cures.