Nautch Girls with Hookah, 1870
Nautch girls with Hookah, Kashmir, an albumen print by Frith, c.1870s
Tag: India
The Perfect High, 1856
The Perfect High There once was a boy named Gimmesome Roy. He was nothing like me or you. ’Cause laying back and getting high was all he cared to do. As a kid, he sat in the cellar, sniffing airplane Read More …
Wholesale Arrows
“I shoot an arrow into the air, where it lands I do not care: I get my arrows wholesale!” -Curly Howard “Children with bows fire arrows made out of cannabis stalk, the scraps of their parents’ work.” – India’s Himalayas
Hookah Girl Painting, 18th century
A girl smokes a hookah -unknown, India – dated “last quarter of 18th century”
What Bonds Us, 550
“the use of the hemp plaster may have been for more than just preservation purposes. As the hemp plaster has the ability to store heat, is fire-resistant and absorbs about 90 percent of airborne sound, a peaceful living environment for Read More …
Chillum Smoke, 1870
A Sunnyasi Brahmin smoking a chillum in India, 1870
The Source of Happiness, 1700BC
The Source of Happiness The Vadas (sanskrit for knowledge) is among mankind’s oldest writings to survive antiquity. Here in this early writing we find gods, demons, the origin of the world and oh ya, Cannabis… Lets start by going Read More …
Spontaneous Growth of Bhang, 1894
‘The spontaneous growth of bhang in the public gardens’, Amritsar, India April 23, 1894 Photograph from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’
Rickshaw Session, 1970
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” – Philip Seymour Hoffman Two men in rickshaws passing pipe, Benares, India 1970
Calcutta Chillum Smoke, 1979
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” – Winston Churchill Man in turban smoking cannabis from chillum pipe, sadhu watching camera. Calcutta, India 1979 or ’80