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cover Ivan Novikov – Konopel-Konopelka ‘Hemp – Cannabis’ (New Children’s Library, poems for children) 1926 Teach the Children Not too long after the end of World War 1, Russian Ivan Novikov released his new children’s book of poems. The Russian Read More …
‘Old man, farmer’, hand tinted photograph by Felice Beato in Korea between 1871-1877
‘La Corderie: Femme Mangeant du Chanvre’ (The Ropeworks: Woman Eating Hemp), by Jean Baptiste Huët (1745-1811) oil on canvas Watercolor with pen and ink “O, she’s warm! If this be magic, let it Read More …
‘500 marijuana plants were seized in the basement of an empty warehouse on 3rd Street. SFPD Crime Lab Investigator Bob Fitzer dusted the indoor grow lights for finger prints just before the SFPD and members of the DEA began to Read More …
Base for a Water Pipe (huqqa) made from a Yak’s Horn with decorative iron & brass mounts. Skardu, Gilgit-Baltistan (modern day Pakistan) made between 1775-1800
After the plow, the farmer took a break for a pipe. ‘Farm animals in North China’ photographed by J.C. Carter published in ‘Familiar Chinese Faces’. Northern China early 1920’s
‘Women Breaking Hemp’ photographed by Félix Arnaudin, print from a gelatin silver bromide negative. Commensacq, France 1893
’30 pounds of what police believe to be ‘Colombian’ marijuana displayed by Rockie J. Yardley an officer in the technical investigation division.’ Edmond, Oklahoma August 13, 1980
‘Le Fumeur De Chibouk’ (The Chibouk Smoker) by Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, dated between 1820-1860
‘Australian fighters pose with a captured Turkish sniper disguised as a cannabis bush’. The Turkish sniper was photographed immediately after capture while he was being brought in under guard. He was camouflaged by a Jack-in-the-Green arrangement of cannabis foliage attached Read More …