Two Harvard Students, 1888

‘Two Harvard students, one seated behind a desk and one lying in a hammock’,  Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts between 1888-90       The ‘one seated behind a desk’ puffing his pipe     Of course no proper stoner Read More …

Lost in a Harem, 1944

‘Lost in a Harem’ starring Abbott and Costello, 1944    

The Weed Card, 1910

‘Fredric Weed’, 2nd baseman for the Spokane Team (Pacific Coast League), 1910 Obak tobacco baseball card  

Hitting the Gas, 1926

When she says she smokes that gas!     Miss Vera Vance stands upon a gasoline pump for a Expo publicity photo August 1926

Happy 420, 1885

4:19       4:20       Happy 420 everyone!   Photographs – Girls pose in Turkish studio, Istanbul 1885

The Prime Minister’s Cow, 1970

“I was in Turkey and these guys invited me into one of the coffee shops and passed the hookah around and I smoked it. What was in it, I don’t know, probably some hash. Same thing in India (and) China. Read More …

Parke, Davis & Company advertisement, 1957

I can’t even make this stuff up… “You say you paid $9.oo to get that one prescription filled? Wow!” “Depends on how you look at it. That medicine kept me from missing weeks of work… Maybe saved my life. I Read More …

Perfectly Baked, 1921

Wage Campaign on “Indian Hemp” Las Animas, Colorado, Dec. 22 Vigorous measures to stamp out production of “Indian Hemp” are being taken by Bent County officials following the discovery here of several gardens in which the plant was being cultivated. Read More …

Reagan’s Drug War Comic, 1986

“I don’t know what hes on, but its a lot more powerful than that stuff from Latin America” People look up at the sky at Reagan flying off with a drug bag and behind him leaving a smoke trail. The Read More …