The underground blog exploring the untold history of Cannabis...
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 …
‘Dolce far niente’ / Sweet Idleness, postcard of a Baluba Man smoking from a water pipe. Belgian Congo, Africa around 1908
Illustration of a ‘Liamba Leaf’ aka Wild Hemp (cannabis) from the book ‘Adventures in the great forest of equatorial Africa and the country of the dwarfs’ by Du Chaillu & Paul Belloni in 1890 Liamba Leaf “I found Read More …
Native of Kashmir smoking primitive earth pipe, from Illustrated Archaeologist september 1894 Earth Pipe Utilizing a ancient technique our ancestors had no need for pipes to smoke their cannabis, instead they smoked the herb straight from the Earth! Read More …
‘Indigenes fumant le Liamba’ (Indigenous smoking Cannabis) Postcard from Congo, Africa pre1919
A Head Scratcher I have witnessed all kinds of tray’s to break up ones cannabis on, small hand held ones you could cup in your palm, large tv dinner type trays, fine crystal antique pieces intended for sweets or even Read More …
“We smoke it and it reminds us of different things. We remember the miracles of the world. We remember those far and near. We remember” – Basotho Cannabis Smoking song, from C.J. Bourhill’s report from 1913 called ‘The smoking of Read More …
Zulu’s smoking – South Africa by B W Caney – 1880 The South African Smoker Games Long before the Hunger Games would captivate the delight of many a sauced smoker, cannabis smokers in South Africa came up with their own Read More …
Bar on the West Coast of South Africa In a hole in the wall bar on the west coast of South Africa, a man is found with a poem inked in flesh… ‘The Roker’s Song’ In a hole in the Read More …
“Smoking hemp” in Swaziland, South Africa. Pre 1900