The underground blog exploring the untold history of Cannabis...
Gypsy Musicians perform in the Russian Empire, 1865 Musical Marijuana From humanities earliest musical notes, the fans who followed the sound have shared in a ancient musical tradition handed down for centuries: smoking cannabis! Smoking hashish from a Read More …
‘Anuak man smoking gourd water-pipe’, Jonglei, Southern Sudan 1952
‘Moorish Coffee House’, photochrome print. Algiers 1899
Special Mobile Force (SMF Police) posing with Cannabis Plants before destroying them in a bonfire in front of their Barracks at Vacoas, Port Louis, Mauritius (a little island off Madagascar’s coast) – 1970’s
‘Moorish Court Reception’, Ladies smoking & drinking tea, Algiers, Africa 1910
“Natives Smoking Hashish” from horn water pipe, Mozambique, Gaza, Africa. Postcard dating to the early 1900’s
Musicians play and smoke while woman dances, hand colored Postcard from Tangier, Morocco 1913
‘Hemp Pipe’ “Cow’s horn with opening at tip closed at base; hole bond is concave surface of horn for insertion of a short cane tube on which fits a well made pottery bowl with flaring mouth. This is the simplest Read More …
‘Indigenes fumant le Liamba’ (Indigenous smoking Cannabis) Postcard from Congo, Africa pre1919
“We smoke it and it reminds us of different things. We remember the miracles of the world. We remember those far and near. We remember” – Basotho Cannabis Smoking song, from C.J. Bourhill’s report from 1913 called ‘The smoking of Read More …