The underground blog exploring the untold history of Cannabis...
“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs’d in ocean’s pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger Read More …
“It isn’t by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.” Read More …
Grow Yer Own Stone – Alexander Sumach, 1974 book cover Grow Yer Own Stone Canada was much like the U.S. during the 70’s with high penalties for small cannabis infractions. In 1974 Author Alexander Sumach published a book proposing a Read More …
1873 engraving of a Bernese woman beating hemp Page from a Antique Book, 1873
“Hemp seed to sow, this is the course we take, the acres lengthwise and across we dress.” -Confucius, Book of Odes Classic of Poetry, aka Book of Songs, Book of Odes, Shijing, Shih-ching or the She-king Book of Odes Read More …
Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde, Book published 1816 By Henry Pottinger In 1816 author Henry Pottinger published a book about finding a route between India and Persia(present day Iran) between 1810-1814. Pottinger was employed and a lieutenant in the East Read More …
Lyster Dewey at his dest in the Department of Agriculture with hemp on his desk, circa 1920. Dewey’s Diary A dirty diary was recently bought at a yard sale in New York, what was in them was lost Read More …
“…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 Read More …
“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 …
“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 …