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‘The Big Grass Fire’ U.S. Customs use San Francisco Mint incinerator to burn 1,800 pounds of marijuana, 46 pounds of hashish and a few ounces of cocaine and heroin, all seized over a 2 year period. A U.S. Customs spokesperson Read More …
‘Weedhead, Tramp’, Phyllis Stalnaker mugshot from the old San Diego police headquarters museum at Seaport. San Diego, California 1944
‘Chief of Police, James Orr, pictured with captured peyote and marijuana’. Fairfax, California June 9, 1967
‘500 marijuana plants were seized in the basement of an empty warehouse on 3rd Street. SFPD Crime Lab Investigator Bob Fitzer dusted the indoor grow lights for finger prints just before the SFPD and members of the DEA began to Read More …
‘Root of an Evil’ – Police officer Bernard Gallagher uproots a marijuana plant in Golden Gate Park. Tended by a gardener who said he didn’t know what it was, the plant was capable of producing about $100 worth of dope. Read More …
‘Robert S. Mueller III, then Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, and Daniel Addario, Special Agent in charge, DEA San Francisco, standing in front of a 547 pound hashish seizure’. Concord, California January 1978
‘5.5 tons of marijuana in a Hertz truck, loaded off two vessels. The larger boat is the Andiamo, the smaller one the Mercy Wiggins AKA the Ruth Ann’. San Francisco, California May 5, 1971 Walter Pardaen with the life Read More …
Love Puff, San Francisco, California 1968
‘Large cache of marijuana seized’ San Francisco, California June 17, 1964
Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land Farmers of the Imperial Valley, in California, have found wild hemp, a familiar weed, will in two or three months replenish exhausted soil as thoroughly as alfalfa and do the job Read More …