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‘Retting Group’ – Preparation and sinking of hemp fiber by means of stones of rafts formed by bundles of hemp for maceration/retting; the work group was portrayed during a pause.’ near Bologna, Italy undated Notice the bare foot of the Read More …
Policeman with a can of marijuana seized on Leblon beach, south of Rio, Brazil October 10, 1987 Silence of the Cans During the Summer of ’87, the buzz around Rio de Janeiro didn’t come from its streets or around Read More …
‘5.5 tons of marijuana in a Hertz truck, loaded off two vessels. The larger boat is the Andiamo, the smaller one the Mercy Wiggins AKA the Ruth Ann’. San Francisco, California May 5, 1971 Walter Pardaen with the life Read More …
‘Marijuana Confiscation’, Miami, Florida 1987
‘Drug bust in San Francisco. Agent Matt O’Connor aims his gun at suspects.’ San Francisco, California October 3, 1963
Capt. Rufus D. Pettit’s Battery B, 1st New York Light Artillery, taken during McClellan’s Peninsula Campaign in Fort Richardson, Fair Oaks, Virginia 1862 Grapes of Wrath At the height of battle when all seemed lost facing an overwhelming advancing force, Read More …
Wat er van hennep komt by J. Vlieger (from Amsterdam) in 1873 What Comes From Hemp A cute little booklet published in 1873 by a dutch author targeted just one subject… Hemp! The title for the book would Read More …
‘At sunset, Customs agents, armed with shotguns, scour the darkening waters of Falcon Lake, looking for marijuana smugglers during Operation Intercept.’ Falcon Lake, Texas 1969
United States Customs Agent sits on confiscated bales of Marijuana found on the ship the ‘Flambeau’ in the Florida Keys, 1978
Steve Lamb checking out a cannabis garden in Jamaica. Steve is one of a group of seven men known as the Steinhatchee Seven caught smuggling 9 tons of square grouper into Florida on a shrimp boat in ’73. Jamaica, Read More …