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Marihuana May Not Be Grown In This City ‘No more may the festive “marihuana” be grown in the city of Phoenix. Not that it is known to have ever been propagated here to any considerable extent. Nor may it Read More …
‘Afghan man sitting outside his house enjoying a smoke from his waterpipe’, the desert near Herat in west Afghanistan 1965
‘Cut hemp stalks gathered in shocks in a field’ Brandon, Wisconsin undated
‘A group of Danish artists in Rome’ by Constantin Hansen 1837
‘Turkish Women’ relax while smoking a waterpipe in studio by Pascal Sebah & Polycarpe Joaillier. Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey 1870’s
‘m. dario artiste sans bras, cirque veuve ricono’ postcard 1890’s Rolling with the Circus No other act in history has embodied the spirit of the old circus saying ‘The show must go on’ more then one small man with no Read More …
‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”. The print is a animal allegory Read More …
‘A Hindu Nautch’ Postcard. Two Nautch women smoking hookah. Calcutta, India pre1910 A hand painted version this time labeled ‘A Hindu Lady’
‘Charged with the sale of marijuana Wednesday after pre-dawn raids was Virgil ‘Smiley’ Smith, 48, of 411 N Eastern.’ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma March 6, 1936
Hope everyone had a chance to catch up on some reading during my time off. Roll one up and get that pipe packed, we’re just getting started, breaks over ‘Flapper reading newspaper’, one in a collection of erotic indoor Read More …