John Greenleaf Whittier's 1854 abolitionist poem The Haschish which used the legendary drug as a symbolic device, determining that for making "fools or knaves of all who eat it... The hempen Haschish of the East / Is powerless to our Western Cotton!"
SOURCE:
Whittier, J. "The Haschish" (available at this library).
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