The Worlds First Blunts… Mbade

A ‘mbade’ (cigar/blunt)made by the Wahehe People from Tanzania 1922   The Worlds First Blunts… Mbade Long before New York crews started cracking Phillies, one tribe in Tanzania had already mastered the art of rolling the perfect blunt. The practice Read More …

A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse, 1971

‘Unavoidable feeling of Euphoria – Cannabis’ from A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse in OZ magazine  April 1971  

Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land, 1931

    Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land Farmers of the Imperial Valley, in California, have found wild hemp, a familiar weed, will in two or three months replenish exhausted soil as thoroughly as alfalfa and do the job Read More …

Hemp: A Practical Treatise, 1900

“There should be no necessity for an apology or an excuse for preparing a work upon hemp culture at this time…  It was among the first introduced into America, and one of the most extensive in cultivation among the colonists; Read More …

To Farm Insanity Plant, 1909

To Farm Insanity Plant Deadliest Vegetable Known to be introduced into Texas. “The deadly marihuana plant is to be introduced into Texas from Mexico by special permission of the state agricultural department. Ernest Love, who conducts an agricultural experimental station Read More …

Homemade Marijuana Pipe, 1974

“Homemade Marijuana Pipe” from a press release photo in Gulfport, Florida. 1974   Gulfport- What do a wine bottle, a piece of construction pipe and some aluminum foil have in common? They can all be used to make marijuana pipes. Read More …

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 Expectant Hand, 1909

Union Square at the Broadway Bowery by Artist Albertus Del Orient Browere painted it from memory in 1885     The Expectant Hand   One of my favorite articles from yesteryear… This story takes place right in present day Union Read More …

Perfectly Baked, 1921

Wage Campaign on “Indian Hemp” Las Animas, Colorado, Dec. 22 Vigorous measures to stamp out production of “Indian Hemp” are being taken by Bent County officials following the discovery here of several gardens in which the plant was being cultivated. Read More …

Something Going On, 1930

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 …