The Roker’s Song, 1943
Bar on the West Coast of South Africa In a hole in the wall bar on the west coast of South Africa, a man is found with a poem inked in flesh… ‘The Roker’s Song’ In a hole in the Read More …
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The Almost Slave Hemp Rebellion of 1789
“It was an insurrection of the negroes, who were that night to have set fire to the large and beautiful town of St. Pierre… The combustibles were laid were laid in upwards of 100 houses (consisting of hemp dipt in Read More …
EXPOSING THE MARIJUANA DRUG EVIL IN SWING BANDS!, 1938
“The “tea” might as easily madden you to a homicidal frenzy, like that of the Filipino who runs amuck; it might make you a philosopher, a rapist or a thief. But, unlike any other narcotic, it has no legitimate use; Read More …
Dance of the Hemp Dragon
舞麻龙 “hemp Dragon Dance”, Sichuan Province, China Dance of the Hemp Dragon Ancient Chinese hemp harvest festival’s created a magical day of celebration. This celebration would birth a magical creature… The Hemp Dragon… For the Qiang people living Read More …
Hemp Hop, 5th Century
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius geisha/Maiko performing with Tsuzumi drum. Japan between 1914 and 1918. Hemp Hop A couple puffs and one is at harmony with nature. In Read More …
Without Love We are Nothing at All, 1943
“Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.” – Edith Piaf’s actual last words… Edith Piaf at French POW camp, January 1, 1943 Without Love we are nothing at all Edith Piaf lived 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 …
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 …
Sensimilla Shinobi, 1676
“…a successful ninja is one who uses but one tool for multiple tasks” -The Bansenshukai c.1676 Ninja scene from – Iwami Buyuden by Hirosada, (Act 1) 1855 Sensimilla Shinobi The Ninja’s of Feudal Japan were arguably history’s greatest assassins. The Read More …
Inquiry into Boogie Woogie, 1944
Inquiry into Boogie Woogie “Can you remember perhaps some time when your radio was discoursing Jazz(by chance, of course) and you suddenly had an almost irresistible impulse toward delinquency” the New York Times, JULY 16, 1944 Defying gravity in 1953 Read More …