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‘Devil’s Harvest’, movie 1942 ‘A Vicious Racket With It’s sic Arms Around Your Children! A fifth column sowing destruction in the youth of America. The truth about MARIJUANA the smoke of Hell!’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNEKIL4TOvA
‘Spinners of the Distaff’ (Les Fileuses de Quenouilles), postcard showing women spinning hemp with pigs. Tarn, France pre1910
Marihuana May Not Be Grown In This City ‘No more may the festive “marihuana” be grown in the city of Phoenix. Not that it is known to have ever been propagated here to any considerable extent. Nor may it Read More …
‘Afghan man sitting outside his house enjoying a smoke from his waterpipe’, the desert near Herat in west Afghanistan 1965
‘Cut hemp stalks gathered in shocks in a field’ Brandon, Wisconsin undated
‘A group of Danish artists in Rome’ by Constantin Hansen 1837
‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”. The print is a animal allegory Read More …
‘A Hindu Nautch’ Postcard. Two Nautch women smoking hookah. Calcutta, India pre1910 A hand painted version this time labeled ‘A Hindu Lady’
‘Charged with the sale of marijuana Wednesday after pre-dawn raids was Virgil ‘Smiley’ Smith, 48, of 411 N Eastern.’ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma March 6, 1936
Hope everyone had a chance to catch up on some reading during my time off. Roll one up and get that pipe packed, we’re just getting started, breaks over ‘Flapper reading newspaper’, one in a collection of erotic indoor Read More …