Lost in Exquisite Intoxication, 1884
“I turn, I twist, I twirl. I melt, I fade, I dissolve. No diaphanous cloud is so light and airy as I. I admire the ease with which I float. My gracefulness fills me with delight. My body is not Read More …
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A Pipe For What?, 1746
“The happy effects of the smoke of tobacco in restoring drowned persons to life” – Dr. Brubier of Paris (in ‘A Physical Dissertation on Drowning:’) 1746 A Calm at a Mediterranean Port – Claude-Joseph Vernet – 1770 – Read More …
Kashmir Nautch Smoking Hookah, 19th century
A Kashmir nautch girl with a hookah – Mortimer Menpes (1860-1938)
McKinley Political Cartoon with Cannabis, 1896
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind.” -Samuel Read More …
Reefer Madness Poster
“Reefer Madness” movie poster re imagined by Timothy Pittides
Wicked Art, 17th century
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.” -Ernest Hemingway Two musicians playing a guitar and a pipe with another figure – Northern Follower of Caravaggio – 17th century
The Tempest
“The charm dissolves apace, And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.” – William Shakespeare, The Tempest
Cannabis the movie, 1970
‘Cannabis’ movie poster. The movie was the renamed European release of ‘French Intrigue’ poster – 1970
To Earthward
To Earthward Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear; And once that seemed too much; I lived on air That crossed me from sweet things, The flow of—was it musk From hidden grapevine springs Downhill Read More …
Mark Twain the Devotee, 1870
“…when they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon… they little knew how trivial and valueless I would regard a decade that Read More …