Vintage Headshop, 1903

‘Roy Smythe in his ‘pool hall and tobacco store’ selling hookahs and pipes on the counter with opium pipes under the counters glass.’  Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada opened in 1903    

The Prime Minister’s Cow, 1970

“I was in Turkey and these guys invited me into one of the coffee shops and passed the hookah around and I smoked it. What was in it, I don’t know, probably some hash. Same thing in India (and) China. Read More …

Closer cooperation in the control of the use of marihuana, 1937

“The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.” – NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE   “Closer cooperation in the control of the use of marihuana weed is expected to be the outcome of Read More …

Project E206, 1969

“There has been little evidence in Canada to support an association of cannabis with crimes of violence. Nor is there any suggestion that cannabis users are obliged to engage to any significant extent in a career of petty crime to Read More …

Grow Yer Own Stone, 1974

Grow Yer Own Stone – Alexander Sumach, 1974 book cover Grow Yer Own Stone Canada was much like the U.S. during the 70’s with high penalties for small cannabis infractions. In 1974 Author Alexander Sumach published a book proposing a Read More …