Two Finger Salute, 1415
Winston Churchhill – December 1942 – oh he knew… Two Finger Salute First use of the Two Finger Salute is said to go back to the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War in 1415. The French Read More …
Month: June 2017
1924 Reading Standard motorcycle & a Cannabis plant
2 little girls sitting on a 1924 Reading Standard motorcycle in front of Cannabis plant, undated
Smoking Twain, 1870
“…when they used to tell me I would shorten my life ten years by smoking, they little knew the devotee they were wasting their puerile word upon — they little knew how trivial and valueless I would regard a decade Read More …
This Means Something, Undated
Hemp Stack, undated – Part of Glass plate negative collection Piles of Hemp, undated – Part of Louis Edward Nollau F Series Photographic Print Collection (University of Kentucky) “This means something”
The Poor House, 1576
“This would be a great world to dance in if we didn’t have to pay the fiddler.” -Will Rogers Women picking oakum in the workhouse – 1906 “What was the poor made for but to work? – go to the Read More …
Field of Cannabis in Russia, 1910
Field of Cannabis in Russia, 1910 Photo taken by Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii – Taken in Russia along the Samara-Zlatoust Railway in the Sim River valley – developed with his three-color photography process
No One Puts Baby in a Corner, 1956
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Lili Berde performing her forbidden dance ‘The Marihuana’ No One Puts Baby in a Corner Read More …
The Smoke Off, 1972
The Smoke Off In the laid back California town of sunny San Rafael Lived a girl named Pearly Sweetcake, you prob’ly knew her well. She’d been stoned fifteen of her eighteen years and the story was widely told That she Read More …
Chloroformic Visions, 1861
Chloroformic Visions Love the poetic writing in this article. They just don’t write the same anymore… “My last sane recollection is of the surgeon applying the handkerchief to my mouth” “So swift are the evolutions of thought Read More …
Bronx Bud, 1964
“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.” Read More …