Pigs are Spinning, 1673

‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”. The print is a animal allegory Read More …

A Hindu Nautch, pre1910

‘A Hindu Nautch’  Postcard.  Two Nautch women smoking hookah.  Calcutta, India  pre1910       A hand painted version this time labeled ‘A Hindu Lady’  

Predawn Raids, 1936

‘Charged with the sale of marijuana Wednesday after pre-dawn raids was Virgil ‘Smiley’ Smith, 48, of 411 N Eastern.’ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma  March 6, 1936      

Catching up on some reading, breaks over

Hope everyone had a chance to catch up on some reading during my time off.  Roll one up and get that pipe packed, we’re just getting started, breaks over   ‘Flapper reading newspaper’, one in a collection of erotic indoor Read More …

Italian POW Cannabis Garden, 1915

Cannabis garden curated by Italian prisoners of war under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Ljubljana Castle, Austria (present day Slovenia) during WW1 between 1915-1919    

Le Teilleur de Chanvre, 1910s

‘Le Teilleur de Chanvre’  (The Hemp Scutcher) postcard.  Bresse, France 1910’s        

A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse, 1971

‘Unavoidable feeling of Euphoria – Cannabis’ from A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse in OZ magazine  April 1971  

Smoking in Saigon, 1971

‘American GI’s smoke marijuana at an off-base apartment in Saigon’, Vietnam 1971              

The Treatment of Hemp, 1925

‘The Treatment of Hemp’ photographed by Karel Plicka.   Prislop, Slovakia 1925    

Fumador de Kif, 1876

‘Fumador de Kif’ (Kief Smoker) by Emilio Sala Frances  1876