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In the Clutches of the Gang (1914) Movie Something In Brooklyn, a vague person telephoned police headquarters. “There is something going on here,” he said. Six plain-clothes detectives and four patrolmen went to investigate. Presently the vague person again Read More …
Photograph from Jerry Rubin’s Cook County Prison Journal ‘We Are Everywhere’ – 1971
“Lay low, boys, Its a hot summer!”, ‘Heat Wave In St. Louis County’s Rat Alley’ from The St. Louis Post, 7-21-1953. (Included in the businesses ‘Marijuana Shoppe’)
“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 …
Et le soleil se coucha sur l’Adriatique (Sunset over the Adriatic)- And a name for the artist? Joachim-Raphael Boronali aka Aliboron aka Lolo the Donkey Revenge of the Hashishin’s Although the original Hashishin hangout the ‘Cabaret des Assassins’ in Read More …
Warning: Smoking marijuana may be injurious to your police record. – ‘Keep Off the Grass’, article From Teen magazine, January 1968
“I’m waitin’ for the train that goes home sweet Mary Hopin’ that the train is on time Sittin’ downtown in a railway station One toke over the line” – Brewer & Shipley Lawrence Welk deals with Champagne Ladies who misbehave, Read More …
‘In His Steps’, Spire Comic book by Al Hartley (Hartley also created Archie comics). 1977
The Cat’s Meow Arrested and charged with selling an undercover cop fake marijuana, Harlem, 1941. Judge got joke’s… The New York Times August 21, 1941
Inquiry into Boogie Woogie “Can you remember perhaps some time when your radio was discoursing Jazz(by chance, of course) and you suddenly had an almost irresistible impulse toward delinquency” the New York Times, JULY 16, 1944 Defying gravity in 1953 Read More …