A hemp field harvest before and after Kentucky, 1905.
A hemp field harvest before and after in Auvergne, Kentucky 1905. Cutting hemp with a binder and four-mule team circa 1905 The “tented hemp fields” after harvest, 1905
Smuggling Mariguana Territory, 1897
Point of no return, front gate Yuma Territory Prison Smuggling Mariguana Territory This small catch by a Yuma Territory prison guard in 1897 gets treated like the crime stop of the decade, with the tale getting reprinted for years Read More …
Don’t you care, I’m only smokin rope, 1909
The Kendrick gazette March 19, 1909 Article: In Self Defence “Moderate smoking will be permitted subject ot restrictions as to the size of pipe and the quality of the material smoked. Onion leaves, cabbage leaves, hemp rope, horse blankets Read More …
100 Year Old Pure Silver Persian Hookah
100 Year Old Pure Silver Persian Hookah/Nargile
The hemp press comes down, 1908
“When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.” – Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Read More …
Merrie Melodies, 1933
Merrie Melodies, Cartoon September 30, 1933 Sultan smoking from his hookah, and is UN-entertained by a belly dancer
When the White House was Green
“It is necessary to cultivate our garden” – Voltaire White House conservatory earliest photo 1857 (photo taken right after construction, the green house had a wood frame which burnt in a fire in 1867) When the White House Read More …
Marijuana: Sex-Crazing Drug Menace!, 1937
Physical Culture, magazine Feb, 1937 Titled: MARIJUANA: SEX-CRAZING DRUG MENACE! “Shame and death are the evil blossoms of a sinister growth that threatens to ruin the health and minds of thousands of America’s youth.” “Scarcely known outside the medical Read More …
On the journey to Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1953
On the journey to Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1953 National Geographic, 1953
Lock Jaw Cured by Cannabis, 1846
Jeffersonian Republican, newspaper July 16, 1846 titled: Lock Jaw Cured “Dr. Isaac Hiester, of Reading, PA, in the month of April last, cured Charles Sassaman, a lad, sixteen years of age, by the use of a solution of the Read More …