Hand Heckled Hemp, 1920
Men hand heckle hemp at a processing plant in Versailles, Kentucky 1920
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Lit Water Pipe, 1956
‘Man smoking a water pipe lit by servant’, Vietnam 1956
Sizing up Marijuana Plants, 1951
Harold Rosenbaum, Assistant District Attorney, Frank Creta, and James Stevens size up some marijuana plants growing in a Brooklyn back yard. Brooklyn, New York 1951
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Lieutenant F. W. Holmes photograph of the Indian rope trick in May, 1917. Up From an ancient trick marveled for centuries to be ‘the world’s greatest illusion’, comes a tale so high it could only have come from hemp! Read More …
Grape Seller, 1920
‘Grape seller with Kif smokers’ postcard, Tétouan, Morocco 1920
Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land, 1931
Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land Farmers of the Imperial Valley, in California, have found wild hemp, a familiar weed, will in two or three months replenish exhausted soil as thoroughly as alfalfa and do the job Read More …
Evening Cigar, 1958
Igorot woman smokes a evening cigar in a small village near Bontoc, Mountain Province in Northern Philippines 1958
Marijuana Pickup, 1954
‘Detective Sgt. Melvin Fuller With Confiscated Marijuana Plants in the back of a pickup truck.’ Ann Arbor, Michigan July 1954
Parable of the Sower, 1552
Parable of the Sower Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some Read More …
With Child, 1900
‘Young Woman Breaking Hemp’ with child (‘Jeune Femme broyant du Chanvre’), Pontivy, France. Postcard from around 1900