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The Evansville daily journal, Indiana newspaper September 03, 1861 Titled: Bleeding at the Lungs Article pushing for trials on cannabis in 1861… 155 years later, we are still pushing… “Healing property of the Cannabis, we can hardly use Read More …
Nautch girl smoking hookah, Mughal, India – late 19th century
“Someday, my hybrids will be used to crossbred doorknobs and blueberries. Imagine eating your doorknob, you’d never need a lock.” -Gregor Mendel The Father of Genetics As growers we throw around terms like “recessive” and “dominant” all the time. Read More …
Light-winged Smoke! Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight; Lark without song, and messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By Read More …
“Smuggling is a fine art” -President William Taft President Taft on a Buffalo (c. 1904), from when he was serving as governor of the Philippines. “We can sell all the hemp we can raise.” -President William Taft Read More …
Salesman smoking pipe at bazaar, 1875 Cairo, Egypt 1875
Salida Mail, Colorado newspaper December 28, 1906 Titled: The Arabs Hasheesh Interesting newspaper article from 1906 with an old edible recipe for liver… “It was liver powdered with kiff. Kiff is hasheesh. It is made of hemp, and Read More …
“Imagine if the government chased sick people with diabetes, put a tax on insulin and drove it into the black market, told doctors they couldn’t treat them, then sent them to jail. If we did that, everyone would know we Read More …
“Dawn-sniffing revenant, Plodder through midnight rain, Question me again.” – Seamus Heaney image from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry (1910) by champion of electro-therapeutics Samuel Howard Monell
The Smoker, by Adriaen Brouwer 1636