HISTORICAL MEDICAL CANNABIS CALIFORNIA MEDICAL CANNABIS IN CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA PHARMACEUTICAL (CALIFORNIA) MANUFACTURERS: The problem with California is simple, until the gold rush that brought in the forty-niners (1849) there really weren’t that many people over there.   And “Few People” equates to “Few Medicines” and few Drugstores, and fewer drug manufacturers, etc.   And while today it is (population wise) a large state, this was (relatively speaking) not to be the case until the early part of the 20th Century. In addition, California suffered from the curse of isolated geography.   Recalling that before the first transcontinental railroad was built in 1869 all goods had to be shipped around the horn of South America.   Etc.   A situation that made it all but impossible for anyone setting up a drug manufacturing company in this state. However, as the state was also the central hub of commerce in the pacific, it was also natural that major wholesale firms would set up shop in the state, especially around the San Francisco area.   Below is a partial list of (mostly) wholesale firms known to have had a Medical Cannabis history. CALIFORNIA   Boericke & Runyon Co - 140 Powell San Francisco Ca.     [Source= Bottle Picture]   Boericke & Tafel Homeopathic Pharmacy, 234 Sutter St., San Francisco,     -- Mfg. Doctors portable kit which included cannabis - On museum exhibit, San Jose historical museum. [Source = Bottle pictures]   Brooks’ Homeopathic Pharmacy - San Francisco, Ca.     [Source= Bottle pictures]   Clinton E. Worden & Co. - 214-220 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA.     [Source = Pharmaceutical Catalogs] [Multiple medicines]   Coffin-Redington Co., San Francisco Ca.     [Source = Pharmaceutical Trade Catalog, bottle pictures]   Langley & Michaels Co. - San Francisco, Ca.     [mostly wholesaler] [Source = Pharmaceutical Trade Catalog]   National Pharmacy Company San Francisco, Ca.     [Source = Pharmaceutical Catalog] [Multiple medicines]   Geo. Please (a Drug Store)- Sebastopol, CA     [Source= Bottle Picture] [Corn Remedy] Again However (as can be seen from the following), California’s geographic isolation did not prevent some drugstore compounders from putting together some Medicines on their own. Geo. Please (a Drug Store)- Sebastopol, CA - [Corn Remedy] MEDICAL CANNABIS IN CALIF. ON TO PAGE 2 WANT TO KNOW MORE: ===================== Due to space / download time considerations, only selected materials are displayed.   If you would like to obtain more information, feel free to contact the museum.   All our material is available (at cost) on CD-Rom format.   CONTACT PAGE CALIFORNIA MAIN INDEX PAGE