Japanese Hemp Experiment, 1901

Experimental field of Japanese hemp grown at the University of Kentucky Agricultural Experimental Station, photo by Louis Edward Nollau (glass plate negative).  Lexington, Kentucky 1901      

Harvard Hookah, 1890

‘Unidentified student posing with a hookah’ at Harvard University, Massachusetts 1890    

Yale Smoking Contest, 1959

‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959       Honorable mention to the guy in the middle who showed up with the homemade glass jug hookah!      

Hemp Plots, 1915

“Hemp plots”, at a Agricultural Experiment Station grown by the College of Agriculture under the University of Kentucky August 19, 1915    

Smoking Contest, 1959

‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959       Honorable mention to the guy who showed up with the homemade jug hookah!  

Don’t Mind if I Do, 1994

“Hunter S. Thompson was on a panel discussing the influence of the Beats in America. There were 500 people in the audience when he nonchalantly took out a bowl, packed it with his stash, lit up and started passing it Read More …

Rolling Joints, 1966

People roll joints at a marijuana party near the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California May 23, 1966  

Closest Inspection, 1953

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.” -Henry David Thoreau Cross section of a hemp leaf showing a small vein and Read More …

Roshambo, 1800’s

  Roshambo A loved ol’ time smoke spot seems to have answered the eternal question fought over for centuries…  How in the hell does paper beat rock?… Half-way rock, Michigan early 1900’s Before the turn of the century, the journey Read More …

Ganja smoked by the Uralis, 1934

“Cannabis sativa “ganja”, smoked by Uralis, Penyan Lake, Travancore, Kerala; March 9, 1934″     “Gift from Miss Hazel Bartlett, 1961.” Tag attached reads: “Cannabis sativa “ganja”, smoked by Uralis, Penyan Lake, Travancore; March 9, 1934, E.W. Erlanson.” Probably refers Read More …