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Men carrying bundles of hemp to the Złoczów Market in Zolochiv, Ukraine. September 26, 1934 I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm (translated from Farsi) I am coming from the hemp farm Water on one side, Fire on the other Read More …
‘Falstaff with a Tankard of Wine and a Pipe’ by Mihaly Zichy in 1873
The Quest for Purple “Purple, the name and the colour, comes from a dye made from the mucus glands of a tropical sea snail, the murex (porphyra in Greek, purpura in Latin). This discovery is attributed to the Phoenician god Read More …
‘Marijuana and guns taken in a raid’, Kazakhstan, USSR 1956
‘Man smokes a pipe next to the stone animals along the road to the Ming Tombs’, Spirit Way near Beijing, China 1871-72 Spirit Way, China 1860 Spirit Way, China present day
‘A man wearing a suit and a straw hat standing among tall stalks of hemp in a field’. Wisconsin, 1912
“There will be no festival. I can assure you of that,” -State Sen. John Pickett of Middletown Crowds at Powder Ridge Rock Festival July 31, 1970 Party At Powder Ridge The Festival that was never to be quickly turned into Read More …
‘A young Yemenite nurse reading from a newspaper to new immigrants’, Rosh Ha’ayin Camp 1949
‘Smell’ by Jan Miense Molenaer in 1637 That stench of dogshit, the ammonia filled bliss of catpiss to the foulest of skunks, I think we all have grown, smoked or smelled that oddly satisfying funky smelling bud you’ve grown Read More …
“Valentino Reineger of Alton, Illinois 65 years old and a retired glass-blower, had the distinction of being one of the most expert in the country at making odd pieces… The glass pipe shown in the illustration was his most difficult Read More …