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‘Dr Poppy’s Wonder Elixir’, the sale of Dr Poppy’s started in the late 1800’s and sold in Australia up until the end of WW2, this sign dates to 1946 and was found in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia “A Read More …
A man sells pins for H.E.M.P (help end marijuana prohibition) supporting the legalization of marijuana on a New York City street. New York 1971.
Kralingen Pop Festival in Rotterdam, Holland 1970 Crowd smokes cannabis at the Kralingen Pop Festival, Rotterdam, Holland 1970 Stamping Ground – Kralingen Pop festival 1970
Newly elected California Governor Ronald Reagan ordered a symbolic raid on the ‘Psychedelic Shop’ on Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco to make good on his campaign promise to crack down on the ‘hippie movement’. Hoping to find drugs none were found Read More …
‘Man with pipe and seated nude’ by Pablo Picasso 1969
Turkish figures smoking a pipe standing beside a horse’ sketch by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1873) The Syrian Horse In 1851, a western author traveling through the middle east witnessed a peculiar surgery performed on a horse. While Read More …
‘Still Life with a Glass of Beer, a Pipe, Tobacco and Other Requisites of Smoking’ (including hemp wick lighter) by Jan Jansz. van de Velde in 1658
‘A Cafe for Hashish’, H.K. Droit Reserve Postcard. Egypt 1905-1911
Japanese hemp grown in a field at the Agricultural experiment station, Lexington, Kentucky 1901 Uncle Sam Breeds Hemp In the dwindling days just before America’s cannabis prohibition, Uncle Sam not only grew hemp but also sought to breed the worlds Read More …
‘Wild man and woman in a garden’, Hemp textile with silk and wool thread. Basel (Rhine valley), France c.1440