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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 …
Capt. Rufus D. Pettit’s Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery, taken during McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign in Fort Richardson, Fair Oaks, Virginia 1862 Grapes of Wrath At the height of battle when all seemed lost facing an overwhelming advancing force, Read More …
“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 …
The Hemp Seed Halloween Spell This Halloween anyone can find their one true love, no need for that high priced party you only need a pocket full of hemp seed! Tam O’Shanter and the Witches, illustration by John Faed to Read More …
Native of Kashmir smoking primitive earth pipe, from Illustrated Archaeologist september 1894 Earth Pipe Utilizing a ancient technique our ancestors had no need for pipes to smoke their cannabis, instead they smoked the herb straight from the Earth! Read More …
La Corroirie estate near Loches, France (this Hemp oven also served as a prison for misbehaving monks when not in use) Getting Baked With Hemp Across France ruins of hemp history decay. These abandoned structures loom high over farm lands Read More …
“Louie smokes marijuana?” – Richard Nixon’s response when he was told he had smuggled cannabis through customs for Louis Armstrong by his aid Charles McWhorter Louis Armstrong talks with Richard Nixon Satchmo’s Mule Louis Armstrong was considered a master Read More …
DEA Museum at The Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters in Arlington, Virginia Displaying The War On Drugs In 1999 the DEA decided to put some of those tax dollars to work opening a museum all about, of course, themselves. The Read More …
Daruma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, his arms are raised above his head and he is holding a fly whisk used during meditation. He is either yelling or laughing. Copper Kozuka by Toshiyuki 1800’s Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Read More …
‘Cafe with a view’, Tangiers, Morocco 1940 Mr. Burroughs in Morocco He smokes hashish, has visions, and sets out to the English chemist in quest of an antidote. Mr. Burroughs’s peregrinations recently brought him to the city Read More …