The English Flower, 1906

“well-grown plants looking graceful. It should be sown in the open ground” – ‘The English flower garden and home grounds’ by William Robinson 1906 The English flower garden and home grounds – William Robinson 1906   Cannabis Sativa (Hemp Plant) Read More …

Turkish Submarine Hashish Smoking Sneak-a-Toke, 1908

The Nordenfelt-class Ottoman submarine Abdül Hamid (1886) was the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged. Turkish Submarine Hashish Smoking Sneak-a-Toke circa 1908 “Turkish submariners tradition were allowed to smoke hashish off duty. However officers on duty Read More …

Rattle and Smoke Dance, 1564

Rattle and Smoke Dance In 1564 the French sent a party in a attempt to colonize Florida.  Under the direction of explorers  Jean Ribault and René Laudonnière, a group ventured deep into northern Florida. Jacques le Moyne de Morgues was Read More …

Revenge of the Hashishin’s, 1910

Et le soleil se coucha sur l’Adriatique (Sunset over the Adriatic)- And a name for the artist? Joachim-Raphael Boronali aka Aliboron aka Lolo the Donkey   Revenge of the Hashishin’s Although the original Hashishin hangout the ‘Cabaret des Assassins’ in Read More …

The Intoxicating Twain of Hasheesh, 1865

“I think these hundreds of princely costumes are changed every fifteen minutes during half the night; splendid pageants are filing about the stage constantly, yet one seems never to see the same dress twice. The final grand transformation scene is Read More …

Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled, 1904

Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …

Presidential Violets, 1900

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. – Abraham Lincoln   The Violet House section of the White Read More …