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“All the world’s a stage.” ― William Shakespeare A full house, seen from the rear of the stage, at the Metropolitan Opera House, November 28, 1937 Hemp House: The Show Must Go On If you have high dreams on the Read More …
The Illustrated Police News. Volume 21, Issue 541 – 3/10/1877 Authorities get a Handle on Hemp This little story from the 1877 Illustrated Police Newspaper is an example of the power of Hemp in the wrong hands… Hanging, beating, Read More …
見真 “See Truth” -title given to Shinran by the Emperor Meiji, hung above alter in The Goei-do/Founder’s Hall at the Higashi-Honganji Temple Higashi Honganji Temple: Dragon fountain Kyoto, Japan Human Hemp Hybrid Like a modern day Frankensteinian tale, the Read More …
Swallow – Salvador Dali, 1957 The Swallow and the Other Birds It happened that a Countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a Swallow and some other birds were hopping about picking up their food. “Beware of Read More …
“Carnival of 1915” ‘Danza Macabra Europea’ – WW1 Propaganda lithographs by Alberto Martini, 1915 420 Brush Strokes in the Art of War While looking through the stunning work of Alberto Martini’s ‘Danza Macabra Europea’, WW1 series of propaganda lithographs, Read More …
Hemp plant workers, Mapleton, Minnesota 1943 Our Home Hasheesh Crop The hemp plant, the source of the drug hasheesh, is one of the commonest weeds of the country; but there is little danger that it will seriously promote the drug Read More …
Old Hemp Rope at shipyard Something from Nothing So superior is hemp, that even the discarded old beaten ropes are worth saving… When a Hemp rope has lived its life and is in desperate need of replacement, they are Read More …
“I’m smoking my prescription and getting high” – The Berkeley Barb- December 8, 1967 Cannabis Is Legal Editor has legal turn on “Isn’t Quintin Hogg an unremmitting shit? He tries to wiggle out of local honesty by talking internationally. Read More …
Sumo wrestler Onogawa Kisaburō blowing smoke at a One-Eyed Monster, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi- Japan, 9th month of 1865 (one of the first sumo’s to perform the dohyo-iri in November of 1789 Sumo Sized Sacred Power of Hemp The giant sized Sumo Read More …
“Machine for beating out hemp seed” Printed in the Extension Circular No. 400 published by the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station in 1943