Sizing up Marijuana Plants, 1951

Harold Rosenbaum, Assistant District Attorney, Frank Creta, and James Stevens size up some marijuana plants growing in a Brooklyn back yard.  Brooklyn, New York 1951    

I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm, 1977

Men carrying bundles of hemp to the Złoczów Market in Zolochiv, Ukraine. September 26, 1934 I Am Coming From the Hemp Farm (translated from Farsi) I am coming from the hemp farm Water on one side, Fire on the other Read More …

CSI: HUMBOLDT – Mendocino Purple Urkle Test Grow

The Quest for Purple “Purple, the name and the colour, comes from a dye made from the mucus glands of a tropical sea snail, the murex (porphyra in Greek, purpura in Latin). This discovery is attributed to the Phoenician god Read More …

High School Cannabis Education, 1950

A teacher educates a group of 9th grade students of the 636th male high school about plants on the school’s experimental farm site.  A sign identifies the large Cannabis plant in the garden.  Russia  September 1950 конопля is Russian for Read More …

RIP Kees Hoekert

RIP Kees Hoekert… On New Year’s Day 2017 a giant has gone. Kees Hoekert, founder of the Lowlands Weed Company, was a completely unique figure who deserves his nickname ‘Grandfather of the Dutch Nederweed’. He died at the age of Read More …

Man in the Old Shoe

“Kees Hoekert founded the Lowlands Weed Company together with Robbert Jasper Grootveld in 1969, placing the Netherlands as one of the most Cannabis friendly country’s on the world map. He showed that prohibitions are meaningless because after all, everyone can Read More …