Berger describes the scene: “four rooms with
nine couches set against the cracked, cream-
colored walls, with a few limp easy chairs to
handle the overflow.”
At the time, though, these cigarettes were a
completely legal medicinal treatment.
Music was often an important part of Tea Pad
culture. Berger adds that the host was playing
“weird ritualistic themes.” Additionally,
many Tea Pads sprung out of Jazz culture,
though they attracted a wide array of
customers.
To Treat Gonorrhoea
Wm. S. Merrell, an
Ohio-based
chemical company,
manufactured Indian
Cannabis.
They said that this
tincture is both an
anaesthetic and a
treatment for
Gonorrhoea.
As far as we know,
this is not true.
Wm. S. Merrell
manufactured a
whole line of what
you
could
call
medical marijuana products. One of them,
Bromo-Chloral, mixed Indica with liquorice,
orange peel, and chloral hydrate, a strong
sedative and hypnotic drug that’s very
difficult to get today.
As a Tool for Relaxation
Having a smoke sesh is by no means a modern
innovation.
Since the 19th century, urban creatives have
taken part in these gatherings and received a
lot of attention for it.
Back in the 1840s, Balzac, Baudelaire, Dumas
and other French intellectuals formed Le Club
des Hashishins.
During the 1920s and 30s, people called them
“Tea Pads.” In 1938, Meyer Berger, a New
Yorker reporter, visited a Harlem tea pad.
Marijuana’s connection with Jazz culture, and
through African American communities, is
one of the reasons why authorities outlawed it
in the first place.
To Treat Bunions and Corns
Not only was marijuana a typical treatment
for bunions and corns, but at one point it was
the most common.
Antique Cannabis Book lists over 40 different
corn removal brands that list cannabis as an
ingredient.
Though there isn’t much research on cannabis
for corns, we do know that marijuana is a
potent anti-bacterial.