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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 …
Zulu man playing Musical Bow, South Africa 1930 Rhythm of Life Coursing through the human soul, music has always been a part of the human experience from our earliest recorded history. While we created the sound it was Read More …
‘Vigil Bressane’ (Veillée Bressane) postcard. Bourg-en-Bresse, France 1905 Love Song ‘Konopa konopa Koho rada vidímn’ (Hemp Hemp – To One Who I Like To See) is an ancient Slovak song steeped in the culture of hemp. It Read More …
Three nude women smoke a waterpipe while dancing and playing music, Greek postcard, around 1910
“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 …
‘As the Old Sing, so Pipe the Young’ by Jan Steen in 1664 The painting is used as a proverb by the artist portraying the message that ‘children copy adults’. Artist Jan Steen decided to use his actual family in Read More …
Early Reminiscences of the Hemp Giantesses “In driving through a part of Bohemia from Vienna to Dresden we had occasionally long stages, and in the twilight often saw, what at the time amazed and not a little startled me, Read More …
‘Cafe with a view’, Tangiers, Morocco 1940 Mr. Burroughs in Morocco He smokes hashish, has visions, and sets out to the English chemist in quest of an antidote. Mr. Burroughs’s peregrinations recently brought him to the city Read More …
‘Dervishes in the Garden’ smoking pipes and playing music photographed by Dmitri Ivanovich Yermakov in Tehran, Iran ( Persia ) 1870’s
Gypsy Musicians perform in the Russian Empire, 1865 Musical Marijuana From humanities earliest musical notes, the fans who followed the sound have shared in a ancient musical tradition handed down for centuries: smoking cannabis! Smoking hashish from a Read More …