Undercovers Protect Schools from Kids, 1986

“Undercover LAPD officers Dwane White (left), and Yolanda Gonzales appear at a press conference with Chief Daryl Gates, where Gates said the two were among eight undercover agents behind a narcotics operation at nine city high schools. They found 201 Read More …

Clothes for Brown Leaves, 1927

“Albert and Baltazar Negrite, aged 9 and 10, are shown with George Contreras, Detective Chief of the District Attorney’s Office. Boys are wearing new clothes purchase for them after Contreras had found them in destitute circumstance upon investigating charges that Read More …

Crazed From Smoking a Weed, 1905

Crazed From Smoking a Weed Crazy article from 1905 that Interestingly gives credit to ‘indian women’ for growing cannabis in North America…   “Marihuana is a weed used in Mexico by people of the lower class and sometimes by soldiers, Read More …

Bonfire Material, 1948

Bonfire Material   Los Angeles Times -Sept. 8, 1948 “Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Smith drags a load of marijuana from a roadside patch in Rosemead. The plants were later burned. A story in the next morning’s L.A. Times Read More …

Prohibition is a Joke to Police, 1951

  Prohibition is a Joke to Police September 6, 1951 Like any other morning Police started to arrive to work at the Van Nuys station in California. What they didn’t know is a dinner party mystery awaited them this day… Read More …