Practical skunk raising, 1915
“In the land of the skunks he who has half a nose is king.” ― Chris Farley Practical skunk raising by William Pratt – 1915
Month: June 2017
Jamestown Weed, 1676
“If a man, after anointing his ligham with the mixture of the powders of the white thorn apple (Datura stramonium), the long pepper, the black pepper and honey, engages in sexual union with a woman, he makes her subject to Read More …
Cannabis Marching Song, 1919
Cannabis Marching Song The sweet cadence of a marching song echoed through time. This one from Mexico had a little bit of cannabis soul… Many historic marching songs have been sung by armies all over the world. The steady rhythmic Read More …
Get Up Stand Up, 1995
Get Up, Stand Up Preacher man, don’t tell me, Heaven is under the earth. I know you don’t know What life is really worth. It’s not all that glitters is gold; half the story has never been told: So now Read More …
McKinley Political Cartoon with Cannabis, 1896
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind.” -Samuel Read More …
A Mexican Priest Flogs the Corpse of a Dead Wizard, 1887
Cupid Chastised – Bartolomeo Manfredi – between 1605 and 1610 A Mexican Priest Flogs the Corpse of a Dead Wizard I couldn’t even make this stuff up if I tried… “Yesterday at Villa Libre, the parish priest, in Read More …
Reefer Madness Poster
“Reefer Madness” movie poster re imagined by Timothy Pittides
A moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws, 1921
“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” ― Martin Luther King Jr. The Swimming Hole – Norman Rockwell c.1921
The Start of America’s war on Cannabis, 1860
The Nation Makers, by Howard Pyle, c. 1902 First shot’s in America’s war on Cannabis That single moment, however dilute, that wars are started… That moment was when the United States declared cannabis as a “Poison”, April 16, 1860… Read More …
Orange County Marijuana, 1932
Orange County Sheriff Logan Jackson (second from right) with ‘expert’, District Attorney, and others, examining a marijuana plant in California (July 22, 1932)