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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 …
“All Madness…. Until the day Mr. Zip delivers to the White House the seductive little paper cylinders of cannabis sativa to haunt LBJ with their temptation: Smoke Me. Then to render him harmless, kindly, loving and happy….” “Mr. Zip says: Read More …
Robles said he “Grew marijuana because he ‘liked the pretty flower’s on it!” Los Angeles, 1952 Det. Otis Green, Theodore S. Robles and Det. H.I.B. Warren, with 7-foot marijuana plants Robles was found growing in his backyard at 1023 Mahar Read More …
Smoking a ‘joint’ relieves his agony “We have a situation in which the Federal Government continues to spend money trying to find negative effects of marijuana while making it difficult for anyone to investigate the positive of it.” -Philadelphia Evening Read More …
“Emerson, Lake and Palmer performed an operation on the U.S. This summer… In Charlotte, North Carolina, the feedback fiends caused double-trouble with the hot boogie chefs, The Allman Brothers, in what was billed as an August Jam. The fans were Read More …
The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers #1 – 1971
Charlestown Navy Yard/rope making. Center section of the breaker machine showing comb-like teeth that separate the hemp. 1917-1934 Hemp for the Navy “Stands of hemp such as this one which was grown in Henry County last year, and is Read More …
Chinatown Squad of the San Francisco Police Department posing with sledge hammers and axes in front of August Pistolesi’s grocery store at 752 Washington Street – 1895 Predecessor to the Narcotics Squad’s and DEA In this 100+ year Drug Read More …
Zap Comix #0 – 1968 Help build a better America! Now, you don’t need a “shrink” to flush out karmic conjestion! Get Stoned! A modern miracle! Heres How! Smoke at least two of these every day for one year! Read More …
“On this tract is a large quantity of rich bottom, fit for meadow or the culture of hemp” – Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, November 07, 1796 In 1796, the new American Government decides to auction Read More …