Handmade Waterpipe, 1967
‘Woman customer holding a handmade, copper and glass marijuana water pipe at a shop’ in Los Angeles, California 1967
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‘Woman customer holding a handmade, copper and glass marijuana water pipe at a shop’ in Los Angeles, California 1967
A young female worker operating a hemp carding machine at Craddocks Wire Rope Works during WW1. Wakefield, England August 23, 1916
A United States soldier swaps pipes with a local in Burma, 1945 The Photograph was published on the cover of the United States Military WW2 magazine ‘Yank’ in 1945 YANK – July 1, 1945
‘Superintendent Haney of International Harvester Company (left), South Dakota Senator Beebe, Professor Holden, and J.W. Parmley stand in a hemp field sown on May 19, 1917.’ Ipswitch, South Dakota – August 8, 1917
Reclining woman with a hookah pipe photographed by James Arthur, 1900
‘A common weed, Marijuana may even turn up in a flowerbox. This batch bordered a New York street.’ New York 1949
‘Turkish lady smoking a waterpipe’, by the Arougheti Bros Suez. Egypt 1904
“Woman buying marijuana at an open market in Laos. It cost $1.50 per kilo. She filled up her bag and then smuggled it into Thailand, where it was illegal.” Laos, undated
‘The Peace Pipe’ photographed by Carl Moon, Taos, New Mexico between 1907-1908
United States Customs Agent sits on confiscated bales of Marijuana found on the ship the ‘Flambeau’ in the Florida Keys, 1978