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Hope everyone had a chance to catch up on some reading during my time off. Roll one up and get that pipe packed, we’re just getting started, breaks over ‘Flapper reading newspaper’, one in a collection of erotic indoor Read More …
‘Fumees de Chanvre’ (Fumes of Hemp) by Paul Darlix. Part of a short book series titled ‘Nos Secrets’ (Our Secrets) Brussels, Belgium 1949
Illustration of a ‘Liamba Leaf’ aka Wild Hemp (cannabis) from the book ‘Adventures in the great forest of equatorial Africa and the country of the dwarfs’ by Du Chaillu & Paul Belloni in 1890 Liamba Leaf “I found Read More …
“There should be no necessity for an apology or an excuse for preparing a work upon hemp culture at this time… It was among the first introduced into America, and one of the most extensive in cultivation among the colonists; Read More …
Wat er van hennep komt by J. Vlieger (from Amsterdam) in 1873 What Comes From Hemp A cute little booklet published in 1873 by a dutch author targeted just one subject… Hemp! The title for the book would Read More …
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 …
‘I Couldn’t Smoke the Grass on my Father’s Lawn’ by Michael Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin’s son) – 1966
Turkish figures smoking a pipe standing beside a horse’ sketch by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) The Syrian Horse In 1851, a western author traveling through the middle east witnessed a peculiar surgery performed on a horse. While Read More …
“We’d take a gas mask and take the filters out and tape over them, and just make a hole in one of the filters. We’d stick a joint in the gas mask and puff like mad, just keep breathing until Read More …
“well-grown plants looking graceful. It should be sown in the open ground” – ‘The English flower garden and home grounds’ by William Robinson 1906 The English flower garden and home grounds – William Robinson 1906 Cannabis Sativa (Hemp Plant) Read More …