The hemp press comes down, 1908

“When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.” – Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Read More …

Marijuana: Sex-Crazing Drug Menace!, 1937

Physical Culture, magazine Feb, 1937 Titled: MARIJUANA: SEX-CRAZING DRUG MENACE!   “Shame and death are the evil blossoms of a sinister growth that threatens to ruin the health and minds of thousands of America’s youth.” “Scarcely known outside the medical Read More …

Lock Jaw Cured by Cannabis, 1846

Jeffersonian Republican, newspaper July 16, 1846 titled: Lock Jaw Cured   “Dr. Isaac Hiester, of Reading, PA, in the month of April last, cured Charles Sassaman, a lad, sixteen years of age, by the use of a solution of the Read More …

The Nargilé Tease, 1898

L’allumeuse de narghilé (The Nargilé Tease), Jean-Leon Gerome, 1898 – oil on canvas    

A Pygmy women smoking bhang, 1982

“A Pygmy women smoking bhang. The pipe is so long that she had her kid light the bowl with a coal from the fire.”  Epulu Pygmy village, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Congo 1982    

Rolling, Algeria Postcard 1900

I’m not saying I know what this kid’s rolling, I’m just saying I know the smile…   photo by Jean Geiser- Algeria around 1900 – postcard

Plant Wizards fight Wartime Drug Peril, 1943

Popular Science, Magazine September 1943 Titled: Can we have rope without dope?   Plant Wizards fight Wartime Drug Peril In this 1943 article, Uncle Sam gives some interesting points including how to breed cannabis…    

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