An ad for Maltos-Cannabis, the most cannabis-o-riffic food supplement of the 1890s
Historically speaking, cannabis has been used for a whole slew of tinctures, potions, and other such miracle cures. But for the “nervous persons, weak children, and convalescents” of the 1890s, there was Maltos-Cannabis, a nutritious weight-gaining supplement that set the consumer back a mere 75 cents a can. It’s unclear how psychoactive this self-proclaimed “very…
