The most humble Riza ‘Abbasi drew it, 1622
Nashmi the Archer, Inscribed on the back ‘the most humble Riza ‘Abbasi drew it.’ c.1622 Nashmi the Archer, by Riza ‘Abbasi c.1622 Close up of Nashmi the Archer’s hashish waterpipe
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3 Inch Tall Runaway Sought By Police, 1969
3 Inch Tall Runaway Sought By Police “Police demanded entry into apartment. Making up a fairy tale about a runaway boy, they left no possibility untouched. Evidently the suspect is quite small as they, 2 males and 1 woman, Read More …
Italian Inkwell surmounted by a pipe smoker, circa 1600’s
Italian Inkwell surmounted by a pipe smoker, circa 1600’s Inkwell from Venice, Italy circa 1600
A hemp field harvest before and after Kentucky, 1905.
A hemp field harvest before and after in Auvergne, Kentucky 1905. Cutting hemp with a binder and four-mule team circa 1905 The “tented hemp fields” after harvest, 1905
Smuggling Mariguana Territory, 1897
Point of no return, front gate Yuma Territory Prison Smuggling Mariguana Territory This small catch by a Yuma Territory prison guard in 1897 gets treated like the crime stop of the decade, with the tale getting reprinted for years Read More …
Don’t you care, I’m only smokin rope, 1909
The Kendrick gazette March 19, 1909 Article: In Self Defence “Moderate smoking will be permitted subject ot restrictions as to the size of pipe and the quality of the material smoked. Onion leaves, cabbage leaves, hemp rope, horse blankets Read More …
Marijuana: Sex-Crazing Drug Menace!, 1937
Physical Culture, magazine Feb, 1937 Titled: MARIJUANA: SEX-CRAZING DRUG MENACE! “Shame and death are the evil blossoms of a sinister growth that threatens to ruin the health and minds of thousands of America’s youth.” “Scarcely known outside the medical Read More …
Lock Jaw Cured by Cannabis, 1846
Jeffersonian Republican, newspaper July 16, 1846 titled: Lock Jaw Cured “Dr. Isaac Hiester, of Reading, PA, in the month of April last, cured Charles Sassaman, a lad, sixteen years of age, by the use of a solution of the Read More …
The Nargilé Tease, 1898
L’allumeuse de narghilé (The Nargilé Tease), Jean-Leon Gerome, 1898 – oil on canvas
Joy for the Toppers, 1892
“In a world of cares and unsatisfied longings it is natural that the soul should sometimes court oblivion and turn wearily from the realities of life to seek short surcease of sorrow in the illusive glories and dreamy imaginings of Read More …