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‘The Big Grass Fire’ U.S. Customs use San Francisco Mint incinerator to burn 1,800 pounds of marijuana, 46 pounds of hashish and a few ounces of cocaine and heroin, all seized over a 2 year period. A U.S. Customs spokesperson Read More …
‘Chief of Police, James Orr, pictured with captured peyote and marijuana’. Fairfax, California June 9, 1967
‘500 marijuana plants were seized in the basement of an empty warehouse on 3rd Street. SFPD Crime Lab Investigator Bob Fitzer dusted the indoor grow lights for finger prints just before the SFPD and members of the DEA began to Read More …
‘Russian drug raid’ Kazakh, Russia 1957
‘Charged with the sale of marijuana Wednesday after pre-dawn raids was Virgil ‘Smiley’ Smith, 48, of 411 N Eastern.’ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma March 6, 1936
‘5.5 tons of marijuana in a Hertz truck, loaded off two vessels. The larger boat is the Andiamo, the smaller one the Mercy Wiggins AKA the Ruth Ann’. San Francisco, California May 5, 1971 Walter Pardaen with the life Read More …
‘A 1970 raid on a Washington, D.C. Apartment by metropolitan police officers resulted in the seizure of LSD and marijuana, as well as the unusual antique chandelier. The light fixtures on the chandelier had been removed and replaced with rubber Read More …
‘A detective examines marijuana and paraphernalia found at 17 Concord Street in Dumbo.’ Brooklyn, New York undated (late 30’s/early 40’s) The Big Bambu rolling papers on the table are still produced today. The company made cannabis history Read More …
‘Drug bust in San Francisco. Agent Matt O’Connor aims his gun at suspects.’ San Francisco, California October 3, 1963
‘Marijuana and guns taken in a raid’, Kazakhstan, USSR 1956