Greek Party Girls, 1910

Three nude women smoke a waterpipe while dancing and playing music, Greek postcard, around 1910        

Party at Powder Ridge, 1970

“There will be no festival. I can assure you of that,” -State Sen. John Pickett of Middletown Crowds at Powder Ridge Rock Festival July 31, 1970 Party At Powder Ridge The Festival that was never to be quickly turned into Read More …

Jump into the New Year, 1100

  Chinese boys jump rope, Song Dynasty, ca. 1100 AD     Jump into the New Year In ancient China, the only way to celebrate the passing of the old Year was to jump into the new… For this traditional Read More …

Rolling Joints, 1966

People roll joints at a marijuana party near the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California May 23, 1966  

Kanapinis: Return of the Hemp Man

Posing with the Hemp Man   Kanapinis: Return of the Hemp Man What if I told you there was a day where from sun up to sun down you were not only offered but expected to eat delicious fried pancakes Read More …

The American Dope Party, 1906

‘The American dope party’ “A lesson in practical patriotism taught by the Boston tea party.” Illustration shows many men dressed as Native Americans on board a ship labeled “The Good Ship Dope”, throwing cartons and boxes of adulterated and unhealthy Read More …

Halloween’s Hemp Seed Sow, 1850

Some merry friendly country folks Together did convene, To burn their nits upon their stocks, An hold their Halloween. – Robert Burns, 1855   Tam O’Shanter and the Witches, illustration by John Faed to the poem of Robert Burns 1855 Read More …

To Autumn, 1783

The San Francisco call, November 23, 1902   To Autumn O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice Read More …

After Eating Hasheesh, 1895

After Eating Hasheesh During quite a good half hour I felt nothing in any way abnormal, but when the meal was drawing to its close a subtle warmth, which came, as it were, in gusts to my head and seemed Read More …