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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 …
Picasso like Figures, Bordered by Sacred Serpents, Adorn a Tharu Mud Wall in Tikapur These shy people, who ran at first sight of the photographer, invited him into their home after he let them look through his camera’s view finder. Read More …
‘A East African warrior smoking a long pipe’, East Africa 1919
‘Miniature Painting of Fakirs Preparing and Partaking in Bhang and Ganja’. India c.1750
Untitled watercolor by Anon, 1820. Captioned – A European, probably Sir David Ochterlony (1758-1825), in Indian dress, smoking a hookah and watching a nautch in his house at Delhi. A British Surgeon puts Ganjah on the Medical Map In Read More …
‘Harachandi Sahi Ganja & Bhang Shop’ in Puri, Orissa, India, 1969
“Ganja plant ready for cutting, some of the dried leaves still adhering” Naogaon, India – February 16, 1894 (Photo from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’) Plate 85
“A Group of plants in the spontaneous growth of bhang at Amritsar” April 23, 1894 (Photo from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’) Plate 38
The Source of Happiness The Vadas (sanskrit for knowledge) is among mankind’s oldest writings to survive antiquity. Here in this early writing we find gods, demons, the origin of the world and oh ya, Cannabis… Lets start by going Read More …
‘The spontaneous growth of bhang in the public gardens’, Amritsar, India April 23, 1894 Photograph from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’