Hashish Store, 1976
Hashish store, Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan 1976
Month: August 2017
The Cat’s Meow, 1941
The Cat’s Meow Arrested and charged with selling an undercover cop fake marijuana, Harlem, 1941. Judge got joke’s… The New York Times August 21, 1941
Cannabis on the Roof, 1934
Small farm house. (with hemp on the ground and Cannabis on the roof) Horodenka, Ukraine September 23, 1934
ABC Marihuana, 1968
Danish book cover from 1968 voor de genieter van, ABC Marihuana (& de achtbare hashish) 1968
Sensimilla Shinobi, 1676
“…a successful ninja is one who uses but one tool for multiple tasks” -The Bansenshukai c.1676 Ninja scene from – Iwami Buyuden by Hirosada, (Act 1) 1855 Sensimilla Shinobi The Ninja’s of Feudal Japan were arguably history’s greatest assassins. The Read More …
Male and Female ‘Hemp’ Plants, 1893
“Specimens of male (right) and female (left) hemp plants from the seed field.” Khandwa, India – October 28, 1893 from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’ Plate 94
Nautch Girls with Hookah, 1870
Nautch girls with Hookah, Kashmir, an albumen print by Frith, c.1870s
Sweetly Burn my Throat with Cuttings, 324B.C.
“And I will sweetly burn my throat with cuttings— A chimney, not a man.” -the Greek comic poet ‘Crobylus’, 324bc Muhammed Siyah Qalam (Muhammed of the Black Pen). 14th century
Inquiry into Boogie Woogie, 1944
Inquiry into Boogie Woogie “Can you remember perhaps some time when your radio was discoursing Jazz(by chance, of course) and you suddenly had an almost irresistible impulse toward delinquency” the New York Times, JULY 16, 1944 Defying gravity in 1953 Read More …
Filant le Chanvre, 1900
“Filant le chanvre.” = “Spinning hemp.” Postcard from Brittany, France around 1900