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Marihuana May Not Be Grown In This City ‘No more may the festive “marihuana” be grown in the city of Phoenix. Not that it is known to have ever been propagated here to any considerable extent. Nor may it Read More …
‘Cut hemp stalks gathered in shocks in a field’ Brandon, Wisconsin undated
‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”. The print is a animal allegory Read More …
Cannabis garden curated by Italian prisoners of war under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Ljubljana Castle, Austria (present day Slovenia) during WW1 between 1915-1919
‘Le Teilleur de Chanvre’ (The Hemp Scutcher) postcard. Bresse, France 1910’s
‘The Treatment of Hemp’ photographed by Karel Plicka. Prislop, Slovakia 1925
Cover of ‘Games and songs of American children’ by William Newell in 1884 Hemp Follows the Needle Our culture with hemp is so intertwined within the human experience that to this day, we still teach hemp culture to our children Read More …
‘Men watch over a hemp breaking machine, in the background women finish the processed hemp with a whipping motion before placing the finished hemp bundles onto a table(cart?)’ Bologna, Italy 1920/30s
‘Ying Tsun-shen of the Institute of Botany in Beijing beside a large crop of Cannabis sativa L.’ in the vicinity of Longtan, China July 1984
‘Woman sitting at spinning wheel inside Curman Villa’ cyanotype. Lysekil, Sweden 1890