Bernese Hemp, 1873
1873 engraving of a Bernese woman beating hemp Page from a Antique Book, 1873
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A Royal Pipe Collection, 1745
“To-morrow the grim battle smoke will curl; To-day, in spite of it, we’ll feast, my girl! While waiting glory, pleasure we will take, Nor care the future’s gloomy seal to break! Come-guard my tinder-box and take my pipe, And, if Read More …
Turkish farmer, 1890
“The Foolish Man Seeks Happiness in the Distance, The Wise Man Grows it Under his Feet.” -Proverb Turkish farmer with hookah – Sebah and Joaillier 1890-1900
Crazed From Smoking a Weed, 1905
Crazed From Smoking a Weed Crazy article from 1905 that Interestingly gives credit to ‘indian women’ for growing cannabis in North America… “Marihuana is a weed used in Mexico by people of the lower class and sometimes by soldiers, Read More …
Happy Little Tree’s, 1980’s
“Maybe in our world there lives a happy little tree over there.” -Bob Ross Happy Little Tree’s Bob Ross was the calm in the storm of the 80’s & early 90’s. With his soothing tone he took you Read More …
Rickshaw Session, 1970
“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.” – Philip Seymour Hoffman Two men in rickshaws passing pipe, Benares, India 1970
It was Beauty that killed the beast, 1918
“…that crazy fella that’s a runnin’ it….They say he ain’t scared of nothing. If he wants a picture of a lion, he just goes up to him and tells him to look pleasant.” -dock watchman, King Kong 1933 Captain Read More …
Hemp is King of Cotton, 1861
Zouave with flag, c.1861 Civil War Postal Cover (printed picture on envelopes for decoration) “Jeff Davis boasts that “cotton’s king,” Upon his throne so rotten- But he’ll soon find, amid his swing, That Hemp is king of cotton.” Read More …
Forever Blowing Bubbles, 1920’s
“Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.” – Marcus Aurelius Nathan Redwood, Carried Away, 2008 Forever Blowing Bubbles This tune always reminds me of smoking your Read More …
The Hasheesh, 1854
The Hasheesh Leading up to the civil war, another war was brewing… The war between cannabis and cotton… In this poem before the war in 1854, you can feel the war brewing… The Hasheesh Of all the orient lands Read More …