The Perfect High, 1856
The Perfect High There once was a boy named Gimmesome Roy. He was nothing like me or you. ’Cause laying back and getting high was all he cared to do. As a kid, he sat in the cellar, sniffing airplane Read More …
Month: August 2017
Heigh-Ho, 1937
Heigh-Ho We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig In our mine the whole day through To dig dig dig dig dig dig dig Is what we like to do It ain’t no trick to get rich quick If you Read More …
Hemp in Limbo
Youth of the Peace Corps Trainees Holding a Limbo Contest, August 29, 1966 Hemp in Limbo I thought with harvest season approaching and the Dep crews already started, some good old hemp games are needed for the first Read More …
Hookah Break in the Shade, 1952
“Two farmers taking a break in the shade.” Punjab (province) Lahore, Pakistan 1952 Two farmers taking a break in the shade man with hookah setting fire. Punjab (province) Lahore, Pakistan 1952
I have spread my dreams under your feet, 1931
“I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” —W. B. Yeats, “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” Peasants – Diego Rivera c.1931
Turn on LBJ, Send a Joint Today, 1970
“All Madness…. Until the day Mr. Zip delivers to the White House the seductive little paper cylinders of cannabis sativa to haunt LBJ with their temptation: Smoke Me. Then to render him harmless, kindly, loving and happy….” “Mr. Zip says: Read More …
Surrender Dorothy, 1974
A 1986 photo shows the Beltway overpass, Mormon Temple in Kensington in the background Surrender Dorothy Since its dedication in 1974, silhouetting the D.C. Landscape with a emerald city esq vision, the Mormon Temple in Kensington has Read More …
I Surely Would, 1970
“Honey, it’s all about drugs and promiscuous sex. Simon and Garfunkel is poetry! Yes it’s poetry. It’s the poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. Look at the picture on the cover, they’re on pot.” -Scene from ‘Almost Famous’ El Condor Read More …
The Pretty Flowers, 1952
Robles said he “Grew marijuana because he ‘liked the pretty flower’s on it!” Los Angeles, 1952 Det. Otis Green, Theodore S. Robles and Det. H.I.B. Warren, with 7-foot marijuana plants Robles was found growing in his backyard at 1023 Mahar Read More …
Smoking a ‘joint’ relieves his agony, 1978
Smoking a ‘joint’ relieves his agony “We have a situation in which the Federal Government continues to spend money trying to find negative effects of marijuana while making it difficult for anyone to investigate the positive of it.” -Philadelphia Evening Read More …