Hemp Hunt, 1904
Four men dove hunting with shotguns in a hemp field. Mercer County, Kentucky – pre1904 A man aims his shotgun while hunting doves in a hemp field. The field has been cut and the hemp bundled. Mercer Read More …
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Four men dove hunting with shotguns in a hemp field. Mercer County, Kentucky – pre1904 A man aims his shotgun while hunting doves in a hemp field. The field has been cut and the hemp bundled. Mercer Read More …
1940’s farm Truck loaded with hemp stalks
“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.” – Robert Herrick (1591 – 1674) Cutting hemp stalks, Naples, 1944
“Who grows hemp today with a busy hand, Helps themselves and the country!” -Die lustige Hanffibel, 1943 Die lustige Hanffibel, front cover – “The Funny Hemp Booklet” The Funny Hemp Booklet In 1942 preparing for WWII, The German Reich Read More …
The San Francisco call, November 23, 1902 To Autumn O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice 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
La Canapa / The Hemp Stamp 1950 – 65 Lira Italian postage stamp titled ‘La Canapa’ or ‘the hemp’ with the region of Emilia-Romagna highlighted. Image depicts young lady during the Harvesting of Hemp. quote from the 1914 USDA Report Read More …
‘Hemp drying near irrigation ditch’ in Damascus, Syria – 1951
“Hemp Harvest” with a axe in Minneapolis, Minnesota. October 1, 1937
Boy helping with the ganja harvest in Nepal, November 1973 (All dealers’ licenses for cannabis sales in Nepal were revoked on July 16, 1973)