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cover Ivan Novikov – Konopel-Konopelka ‘Hemp – Cannabis’ (New Children’s Library, poems for children) 1926 Teach the Children Not too long after the end of World War 1, Russian Ivan Novikov released his new children’s book of poems. The Russian Read More …
‘Russian drug raid’ Kazakh, Russia 1957
‘Marijuana and guns taken in a raid’, Kazakhstan, USSR 1956
Collective Farm growing hemp, Russia 1950’s
A teacher educates a group of 9th grade students of the 636th male high school about plants on the school’s experimental farm site. A sign identifies the large Cannabis plant in the garden. Russia September 1950 конопля is Russian for Read More …
Russian Drug Agents raid Hemp farm for black market cannabis’, Kyrgyzstan, USSR 1956
British officers relax while smoking chibouk (Ottoman) smoking pipes during the Crimean War. Crimea, 1855-1856
This is translated from a interview of a Russian special forces officer named Sergei Dubko (Intelligence, 56 DSB, Logar Province) talking about the War against Afghanistan. He was stationed inside Afghanistan between 1984-1985. In the discussion he was talking about Read More …
“Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.” -Marcus Aurelius The Friendship of People Fountain or the Friendship of Nations Fountain in Moscow, Russia Bubbling over with Cannabis Read More …
“I did not sleep at all last night. It hurts like the devil! A snowstorm whipping through my soul, wailing like a hundred jackals. Still no obvious symptoms that perforation is imminent, but an oppressive feeling of foreboding hangs over Read More …