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“Snake has no eyes but sings beautifully. Earthworm gives him his eyes in exchange for snake’s song.” – The Earthworm’s Song (Japanese Folktale) Japanese women weaving, c.1890 Legend of the Two Hemp Weavers Earthworms wear Hemp scarf’s… That’s just what Read More …
Richie Rich Success Stories #11 c.1964 Little Dot Meets Her Uncle Smoke
“Man smoking water pipe on city sidewalk”, Hong Kong, China 1940’s
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 …
Le Fumeur Oriental by José Villegas Cordero, 1875
Field of Cannabis in Magar country (northwest of Dohrpatan), Nepal. 1971
1948 NYPD Narcotics arrest, news video. Five men and one woman were busted in a 1948 NYPD raid. 1948 NEW YORK CITY MARIJUANA BUST Busted: Five men and one woman were busted in a 1948 NYPD raid; here, two Read More …
Man smoking hookah in shop with boy, Agra, India 1950’s
“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 …
Boy helping with the ganja harvest in Nepal, November 1973 (All dealers’ licenses for cannabis sales in Nepal were revoked on July 16, 1973)