A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse, 1971

‘Unavoidable feeling of Euphoria – Cannabis’ from A Parents Guide to Drug Abuse in OZ magazine  April 1971  

The Hemp, 1889

The Hemp   Hemp with webbed leaf, Hemp is in bloom, In the air Pollen, like smoke, Corrugated above green strands, And, like a strong wine, his breath Gray heads in the plain. Hemp is ripe, Morning and evening We Read More …

Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land, 1931

    Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land Farmers of the Imperial Valley, in California, have found wild hemp, a familiar weed, will in two or three months replenish exhausted soil as thoroughly as alfalfa and do the job Read More …

The Cut Flower Trade, 1885

‘The Cut Flower Trade’ illustration from The American florist: a weekly journal for the trade, in 1885  

The Pound Pipe, 1872

“Valentino Reineger of Alton, Illinois 65 years old and a retired glass-blower, had the distinction of being one of the most expert in the country at making odd pieces… The glass pipe shown in the illustration was his most difficult Read More …

Haschisch Jugend, 1901

‘Haschisch’ by Alfred Zimmermann, printed in Jugend magazine.  Germany 1901      

Tikapur Artwork Smoke Sesh, 1950

Picasso like Figures, Bordered by Sacred Serpents, Adorn a Tharu Mud Wall in Tikapur These shy people, who ran at first sight of the photographer, invited him into their home after he let them look through his camera’s view finder. Read More …

Mr. Burroughs in Morocco, 1892

‘Cafe with a view’, Tangiers, Morocco 1940     Mr. Burroughs in Morocco   He smokes hashish, has visions, and sets out to the English chemist in quest of an antidote. Mr. Burroughs’s peregrinations recently brought him to the city Read More …

Hemp Workers, 1860

‘Hemp workers’ engraving created by Lallemand and Levy, published in the ‘L’Illustration, journal universel’, Paris, France 1860