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“well-grown plants looking graceful. It should be sown in the open ground” – ‘The English flower garden and home grounds’ by William Robinson 1906 The English flower garden and home grounds – William Robinson 1906 Cannabis Sativa (Hemp Plant) Read More …
“I think these hundreds of princely costumes are changed every fifteen minutes during half the night; splendid pageants are filing about the stage constantly, yet one seems never to see the same dress twice. The final grand transformation scene is Read More …
“This is so well known to every good housewife in the country, that I shall not need to write any description of it” -Nicholas Culpepper, in The English Physician, 1778 The English Physician, by Nicholas Culpepper – 1778 “Hemp This Read More …
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame… The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he’s circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into Read More …
Danish book cover from 1968 voor de genieter van, ABC Marihuana (& de achtbare hashish) 1968
“ye plants and their common uses in physick. Vol. I ” c.1739 A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick- J. Norse – c.1739 The Female Read More …
“What signal?” The captain pointed towards the island, up the side of which ascended a volume of smoke, increasing as it rose. “Ah, yes,” he said, as if awaking from a dream. “Give it to me.” -Alexandre Dumas, the Count Read More …
“…before the red of apple buds become a sign in the low orchards, or the high song of the thrush is pouring forth far away at wet pale-green sunsets, the sower, the earliest sower of the hemp, goes forth into Read More …
“This autumn the master [Hokusai] happened to visit the Western Province and stopped over at our city [Nagoya]. We all met together with the painter Gekkōtei Bokusen (月光亭墨僊?) [Utamasa II, well-known Nagoya artist, pupil of Hokusai’s, and collator of Hokusai’s Read More …
Marijuana The Border Patrol’s fight against Narcotics! Danger #4 – July 1953