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“Take care; Cannabis Sativa can be a fire hazard! Thus the leaves (starting from the bottom of your plant) should be harvested, dried and incinerated in small quantities in the form of cigarettes or pipes, providing a sweet and aromatic Read More …
“The virtues of hemp, it is said, are so great, that an infusion of it in water will cause it to coagulate: hence it is, that if taken in water, it will arrest looseness in beasts of burden. A decoction Read More …
“This autumn the master [Hokusai] happened to visit the Western Province and stopped over at our city [Nagoya]. We all met together with the painter Gekkōtei Bokusen (月光亭墨僊?) [Utamasa II, well-known Nagoya artist, pupil of Hokusai’s, and collator of Hokusai’s Read More …
“Sallie Gardner at Gallop” by Eadward Muybridge in 1878. Consists of 24 photographs in a fast-motion series “Pick-me-ups” for tired animals In 1892 comes this little gem of an article describing how tired animals are energized with cannabis. Interesting they Read More …
“Through cobbled streets so cold and damp The Knocker-Upper man goes creeping Tap-tapping at the window pane To wake the town from sleeping. He said “Eh thee up and stir thi’self The factory ooter’s blowin’ So get up from your Read More …
The retting of raw hemp in a Danish stream… Hanfeinlegen by Theodor von Hörmann, 1884
Mr. Nakamura’s 300 year old hemp house in Miasa Mura, Japan. Built in 1698 They huffed, We puffed, Hemp held the House Down In 1698, let me repeat that, in 1698 Mr. Nakamura’s ancestors built his family house in Miasa-mura, Read More …
Sergeant H. D. Bakenhus of the Seattle Police Department is shown here standing among confiscated marijuana plants. September 9, 1939
“A certainty of sale, as was already observed, will be encouraged enough for the growers of hemp.” -Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799 Congress Guarantee’s the Growers of Hemp This little gem from Read More …
“Mart, he haint old nuff to go to school much, but he kin pick his 20 pounds a day. Mostly 10 to 15 pounds.” “Mart Payne, 5 years old, picks from 10 to 20 pounds a day. His mother Read More …