Don’t get your Panties in a Bunch, 1951
Sheriff’s Secretarty Sonia Simone and Lieutenant Ray Huber posing with evidence including marijuana stuffed womens nylons. Los Angeles, California Marijuana raid, October 31, 1951
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Cannabis Is Legal: Editor has legal turn on, 1967
“I’m smoking my prescription and getting high” – The Berkeley Barb- December 8, 1967 Cannabis Is Legal Editor has legal turn on “Isn’t Quintin Hogg an unremmitting shit? He tries to wiggle out of local honesty by talking internationally. Read More …
The Pretty Flowers, 1952
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 …
Predecessor to the Narcotics Squad’s and DEA, 1877
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 …
Hollyweed, 1976
“I want people to be able to see it from Wilshire.” -Harry Chandler, describing his vision of the Hollywoodland sign A publicity photo for the Hollywoodland subdivision’s groundbreaking includes a plow, mule and surveyors. 1923 Hollyweed In 1923, wanting Read More …
Undercovers Protect Schools from Kids, 1986
“Undercover LAPD officers Dwane White (left), and Yolanda Gonzales appear at a press conference with Chief Daryl Gates, where Gates said the two were among eight undercover agents behind a narcotics operation at nine city high schools. They found 201 Read More …
Humboldt Volunteer, 1978
“A volunteer sativa plant out in the meadow. Southern Humboldt County California, August, 1978.”
Bonfire Material, 1948
Bonfire Material Los Angeles Times -Sept. 8, 1948 “Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Dwight Smith drags a load of marijuana from a roadside patch in Rosemead. The plants were later burned. A story in the next morning’s L.A. Times Read More …
Orange County Marijuana, 1932
Orange County Sheriff Logan Jackson (second from right) with ‘expert’, District Attorney, and others, examining a marijuana plant in California (July 22, 1932)
The Question, 1912
This public question from 1912 makes me smile… But the answer… “Are there any specimens of Indian hemp (cannabis indica), the common hemp, from which hasheesh is obtained, growing in the San Francisco parks? Was it ever grown there?” Read More …