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Plate 4 – Scutching ‘A Treatise on Hemp’, book by Robert Wissett in 1808 “Of the various productions of nature, which are alike conducive to the comforts, to the opulence, to the security, and to the independent existence Read More …
“Woman buying marijuana at an open market in Laos. It cost $1.50 per kilo. She filled up her bag and then smuggled it into Thailand, where it was illegal.” Laos, undated
When she says she smokes that gas! Miss Vera Vance stands upon a gasoline pump for a Expo publicity photo August 1926
A group of Dervish gather at smoke out by Antoin Sevruguin. Tehran, Iran 1901
“Ganja plant almost ready to cut”, Naogaon, India February 16, 1894 (Photo from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’) Plate 35
‘Türkische Frauen’ (Turkish Women) by Ferdinand Max Bredt 1893
“Metal hashish pipe wrapped in leather with a metal tong and reamer set that has been decorated with incised lines. Given to Lester B. McAllister by a French Foreign Legion officer in Tindouf, Algeria, in February, 1943.”
Light Up Time: “A Cambodian soldier exhales after taking a heavy draw on his marijuana water pipe recently during a break in fighting along Route 30, south of Phnom Penh. The drug is popular with Cambodian troops, who usually smoke Read More …
Men relax in a Bustine Garden, Persia (present day Iran) 1910 “Messrs. Gunning, Thornton, Wood and Garden relaxing in Bustine, Persia. Mr. Wood is smoking a hookah pipe.”
“Ganja – Thai Massage”, Sign at a train station in Ganja (Gəncə), Azerbaijan Sometimes in life you don’t need to know what something is, to know you want one…