Hemp in the Mist, 1951
‘Hemp drying near irrigation ditch’ in Damascus, Syria – 1951
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‘Hemp drying near irrigation ditch’ in Damascus, Syria – 1951
“Guitarplayer” – by David Rijckaert III, 1641 “The feather hat that the woman is wearing characterizes her as a prostitute. She is drinking (Taste), smoking (Smell), prodding the man with her pipe (Touch), who is playing the guitar (Hearing). Only Read More …
Old Hemp Rope at shipyard Something from Nothing So superior is hemp, that even the discarded old beaten ropes are worth saving… When a Hemp rope has lived its life and is in desperate need of replacement, they are Read More …
Bonfire of Hashish bricks being destroyed, Ghazni, Afghanistan
“We played out our fantasies like children. We were kids playing “grown-up games.” You can be whatever you want to be when you’re a kid.” – From Jerry Rubin’s Cook County Prison Journal ‘We Are Everywhere’ – 1971
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #1 – 1971
Fayette County, Kentucky 1942
“I’m smoking my prescription and getting high” – The Berkeley Barb- December 8, 1967 Cannabis Is Legal Editor has legal turn on “Isn’t Quintin Hogg an unremmitting shit? He tries to wiggle out of local honesty by talking internationally. Read More …
Sumo wrestler Onogawa Kisaburō blowing smoke at a One-Eyed Monster, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi- Japan, 9th month of 1865 (one of the first sumo’s to perform the dohyo-iri in November of 1789 Sumo Sized Sacred Power of Hemp The giant sized Sumo Read More …
“A Ganja Field” Khandesh, India – 1894 (Photo from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895′) Plate 70