Nine Authors Who Smoked Weed

To be honest, the authors who smoked weed probably outnumber the ones who didn't. Here are some of our favorites.

By
Burgess Powell

5. Honoré de Balzac

The New Yorker

Best known for La Comédie Humaine and Le Père Goriot, Balzac was one of the founders of French realism.

One can’t help but suspect that Balzac’s beautiful and tragic depictions of Paris came from an intensely creative mind helped along by cannabis.

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Burgess Powell

Burgess Powell is a writer for High Times based in New York. She writes about marijuana news, culture, and health.

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