Malana Charas
Woman making charas, “lady in the foreground is carrying cut cannabis plants and -not to waste time- is extracting cannabis resin, while walking.” Malana, India
Tag: indian hemp
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled, 1904
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …
Cannabis Dances with the Devil
“Lady, Poya night, Devil dance, Lady like see?” It was our appoo (house servant) who spoke, I had commissioned him to a acquire all information concerning the holding of such rites, made up of barbarism, superstition and genuine Oriental occultism. Read More …
Spontaneous Growth of Bhang, 1894
“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
Male and Female ‘Hemp’ Plants, 1893
“Specimens of male (right) and female (left) hemp plants from the seed field.” Khandwa, India – October 28, 1893 from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’ Plate 94
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’
The Founding Growers: Part 1, George Washington: The Gentleman Grower, 1765
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. The checks he endeavors to give it, however warrantable by ancient usage, will, more than probably, kindle a flame, which may not be easily extinguished; tho’ for Read More …
The English Patient, 1840
“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.” – Queen Victoria Queen Victoria by RafkinsWarning The English Patient In the middle of the 19th century, Queen Victoria had very Read More …
Nigerian anti cannabis psa
Nigerian anti cannabis PSA poster… Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health, Health Education Division
The Question, 1912
This public question from 1912 makes me smile… But the answer… “Are there any specimens of Indian hemp (cannabis indica), the common hemp, from which hasheesh is obtained, growing in the San Francisco parks? Was it ever grown there?” Read More …