Greek Party Girls, 1910

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

I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm, 1977

Men carrying bundles of hemp to the Złoczów Market in Zolochiv, Ukraine. September 26, 1934 I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm (translated from Farsi) I am coming from the hemp farm Water on one side, Fire on the other Read More …

CSI: HUMBOLDT – Mendocino Purple Urkle Test Grow

The Quest for Purple “Purple, the name and the colour, comes from a dye made from the mucus glands of a tropical sea snail, the murex (porphyra in Greek, purpura in Latin). This discovery is attributed to the Phoenician god Read More …

Spirit Way, 1871

‘Man smokes a pipe next to the stone animals along the road to the Ming Tombs’,  Spirit Way near Beijing, China 1871-72     Spirit Way, China 1860   Spirit Way, China present day  

Hiding in the Hemp, 1912

‘A man wearing a suit and a straw hat standing among tall stalks of hemp in a field’.  Wisconsin, 1912      

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 …

Happy Campers, 1949

‘A young Yemenite nurse reading from a newspaper to new immigrants’,  Rosh Ha’ayin Camp 1949  

Ohhh That Smell, 1637

‘Smell’ by Jan Miense Molenaer in 1637   That stench of dogshit, the ammonia filled bliss of catpiss to the foulest of skunks,  I think we all have grown, smoked or smelled that oddly satisfying funky smelling bud you’ve grown Read More …