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‘Smoke billows from a pipe-smoking dream character as he walks on a ferocious crocodile which is a symbol of the earth’, one of 23 Untitled drawings from ‘Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel’ (The comical Dreams of Pantagruel) by Salvador Dali Read More …
cover Ivan Novikov – Konopel-Konopelka ‘Hemp – Cannabis’ (New Children’s Library, poems for children) 1926 Teach the Children Not too long after the end of World War 1, Russian Ivan Novikov released his new children’s book of poems. The Russian Read More …
After the plow, the farmer took a break for a pipe. ‘Farm animals in North China’ photographed by J.C. Carter published in ‘Familiar Chinese Faces’. Northern China early 1920’s
‘A Dervish Drinks’ from The Habits of the Grand Signor’s Court, Turkey 1620
Cover of ‘Games and songs of American children’ by William Newell in 1884 Hemp Follows the Needle Our culture with hemp is so intertwined within the human experience that to this day, we still teach hemp culture to our children Read More …
‘The Weed Men’ another adventure of Captain Justice & Co., book from the Boy’s Friend Library Series #541 by Murray Roberts, 1936
‘Femme Persienne’ (Persian Woman) engraving by Gérard Scotin from the work of artist Jean-Baptiste Vanmour printed in ‘Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant’ (Collection of one hundred prints representing different nations of the Levant). Printed in 1714 Read More …
‘Fumees de Chanvre’ (Fumes of Hemp) by Paul Darlix. Part of a short book series titled ‘Nos Secrets’ (Our Secrets) Brussels, Belgium 1949
Illustration of a ‘Liamba Leaf’ aka Wild Hemp (cannabis) from the book ‘Adventures in the great forest of equatorial Africa and the country of the dwarfs’ by Du Chaillu & Paul Belloni in 1890 Liamba Leaf “I found Read More …
Early Reminiscences of the Hemp Giantesses “In driving through a part of Bohemia from Vienna to Dresden we had occasionally long stages, and in the twilight often saw, what at the time amazed and not a little startled me, Read More …