Go To Pot, 1972
Marijuana advocacy ad from a weekly newspaper in the United States from 1972
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Marihuana Smokers Arrested, 1913
Marihuana Smokers Arrested Even before cannabis became illegal under a local El Paso city ordinance in 1914, El Paso police found a way to enforce the imaginary… My favorite form of cannabis measurement… The “Bucket” Marihuana Smokers Arrested Charged Read More …
The Vicious Part that Potent Marihuana Plays, 1938
“The vicious part that potent marihuana plays in stimulating certain melody makers to fantastic heights of inspiration and the efforts made to eliminate the evil.” – A 1938 illustration from an article in the San Francisco Chronicle connects marijuana use Read More …
After Eating Hasheesh, 1895
After Eating Hasheesh During quite a good half hour I felt nothing in any way abnormal, but when the meal was drawing to its close a subtle warmth, which came, as it were, in gusts to my head and seemed Read More …
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled, 1904
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …
The Cat’s Meow, 1941
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
Smoking a ‘joint’ relieves his agony, 1978
Smoking a ‘joint’ relieves his agony “We have a situation in which the Federal Government continues to spend money trying to find negative effects of marijuana while making it difficult for anyone to investigate the positive of it.” -Philadelphia Evening Read More …
Cultivating Criminals, 1948
Cultivating Criminals Out fighting the scourge of mother nature, this Sheriff completly missed the 4 foot tall cannabis plant the inmates were cultivating… Madera Tribune,November 8, 1948 Prisoners’ Round – Vincent van Gogh – 1890
The Question, 1912
This public question from 1912 makes me smile… But the answer… “Are there any specimens of Indian hemp (cannabis indica), the common hemp, from which hasheesh is obtained, growing in the San Francisco parks? Was it ever grown there?” Read More …
Local Hashish Eaters, 1895
“There are but few peole in this State who know that “hashish” the opium of Arabia, is raised, prepared, smoked and eaten in California” Local Hashish Eaters In this early 1895 article from San Francisco, we find evidence of Read More …