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 …

Kathmandu Portrait, 1971

‘Portrait of a hippie surrounded by marijuana plants’ in Kathmandu, Nepal 1971  

The Central Hashish Store, 1972

The Central Hashish Store, Kathmandu, Nepal 1972 Maureen, the soon to be wife of Tony Wheeler, emerging from the Central Hashish Store in Kathmandu.  Tony Wheeler writes, “Hashish was legal in Kathmandu in those days and the various hash shops Read More …

A British Surgeon puts Ganjah on the Medical Map, 1813

Untitled watercolor by Anon, 1820. Captioned – A European, probably Sir David Ochterlony (1758-1825), in Indian dress, smoking a hookah and watching a nautch in his house at Delhi.   A British Surgeon puts Ganjah on the Medical Map In Read More …

Hotel Eden Menu, 1971

Food menu for the hotel Eden restaurant in Katmandu, Nepal from 1971 from the December 1971 National Police Gazette     70’s poster for the Eden Hashish Centre Kathmandu, Nepal

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 …