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I can’t even make this stuff up… “You say you paid $9.oo to get that one prescription filled? Wow!” “Depends on how you look at it. That medicine kept me from missing weeks of work… Maybe saved my life. I Read More …
“The root is of nearly medium size, sending forth no branches or leaves above the ground, but with a certain woolliness adhering to it on account of which it could not aptly be figured by me. Both men and women Read More …
‘Los charros contrabandistas’ (The Cowboy Smugglers), 1890 dice game Gameboard for dice game of the ‘Cowboy Smugglers’ shows Mexican cowboys in charro outfits on horseback, lassoing the 64 spaces on the board. The accompanying text, upper right, provides the rules Read More …
“Gathering the Ganja Crop”, Naogaon, India – February 16, 1894 – (Photo from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’) plate 110
Hemp plant workers, Mapleton, Minnesota 1943 Our Home Hasheesh Crop The hemp plant, the source of the drug hasheesh, is one of the commonest weeds of the country; but there is little danger that it will seriously promote the drug Read More …
The Scarecrow and Tin Woodman carry a sleeping Dorothy and Toto out from the field of Deadly poppies. By W. W. Denslow circa 1900 “All across the meadows, many poppies blossomed, and that were so hypnotic and brilliant Read More …
“Marijuana plant pull up” Drug Suppression unit of the Governor’s Task Force removing marijuana plants found near South Lake Mall, Morrow, Georgia. June 9, 1988
“A Group of plants in the spontaneous growth of bhang at Amritsar” April 23, 1894 (Photo from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’) Plate 38
Dynamite Dreams With the railway industry as large as it was in America, someone was bound to try and claim dynamite as a narcotic. They would put a pills worth of dynamite grain in a alcohol drink to ingest it. Read More …
“It was fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American lie, kill, cheat, and rape with the sanction of the all-highest?” – Col. George Hunter White George Hunter White in 1955 America’s Truth Serum May 27, 1943 was another Read More …