Hashish & Mariwana, 1969
Old Freak Street, Kathmandu Durbar Square, Nepal. 1969
Month: August 2017
Moth Smoke Lingers, 1888
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame… The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he’s circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into Read More …
Just Keep Truckin’ On, 1968
“I became acutely self-conscious about what I was doing. Was I now a “spokesman” for the hippies or what? I had no idea how to handle my new position in society! … Take Keep on Truckin’… For example. Keep on Read More …
Closer cooperation in the control of the use of marihuana, 1937
“The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.” – NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE “Closer cooperation in the control of the use of marihuana weed is expected to be the outcome of Read More …
One toke over the line, 1971
“I’m waitin’ for the train that goes home sweet Mary Hopin’ that the train is on time Sittin’ downtown in a railway station One toke over the line” – Brewer & Shipley Lawrence Welk deals with Champagne Ladies who misbehave, Read More …
America’s Native Hemp Gatherers, 1400
“This day [September 4, 1609] the people of the country came aboord of us, seeming very glad of our comming, and brought greene tobacco, and gave us of it for knives and beads. They goe in deere skins loose, well Read More …
Dope Peddler, 1952
“Dope peddler arrested.” Frank, 26 years old (with a bag of bulk Marijuana). Los Angles, CA – May 16, 1952
Contact High, 1660
A Man Blowing Smoke at Drunken Woman by Jan Steen, 1660-65
Greasy Joan Doth Keel the Pot
Winter When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When Blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the Read More …
The Devil’s Waiting for Me, 1977
‘In His Steps’, Spire Comic book by Al Hartley (Hartley also created Archie comics). 1977