Big Eddy Poppy, 1920’s
Camouflaged poppy field in Big Eddy, British Columbia, Canada 1920’s
Tag: prohibition
The Pied Piper of Peril, 1949
“The Pied Piper of Peril!”, Detective Comics #143 – 1949
Kenka Kiseru, 1770
‘Dai nijūichi zu’ woodcut by Harunobu Suzuki in 1770 The print shows a woman using a ‘kenka kiseru’ or fighting pipe to beat a man who has been spying on her. The Japanese long pipes were often reinforced for use Read More …
Washtenaw Grass, 1954
‘Washtenaw county vice squad officers examine some of the more than 200 pounds of marijuana plants confiscated yesterday. The plants, found growing wild on two farms within a 15-mile radius of Ann Arbor, were trucked to the Willow Village Sheriff’s Read More …
Anuak Gourd Pipe, 1952
‘Anuak man smoking gourd water-pipe’, Jonglei, Southern Sudan 1952
Like Acid Raindrops, 1970
A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm music festival Poynette, Wisconsin 1970 Like Acid Raindrops There had been Read More …
Marihuana Plaza, 1938
The Plaza in Vancouver doubling down on the propaganda films showing both ‘Marihuana’ and ‘Assassin of Youth’. Signs on theater read ‘Marijuana (Weed with Roots in Hell)’, ‘Reefer’, ‘Assassin of Youth’. Vancouver, Canada July 22, 1938
Lucknow Lounging, 1872
Lucknow Lounging: A reclining woman with hookah in Lucknow, India 1872
A Treatise on Hemp, 1808
Plate 4 – Scutching ‘A Treatise on Hemp’, book by Robert Wissett in 1808 “Of the various productions of nature, which are alike conducive to the comforts, to the opulence, to the security, and to the independent existence Read More …
Wisconsin Hemp Harvest, 1912
A man gathers long stalks of hemp into a bundle, the hemp was used to produce binder twine. Wisconsin 1912