Take the Weed Outta Your Mouth, Susy, 1940

“take that weed outta your mouth, Susy!”, from Smash Comics in 1940    

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 …

Keep on the Grass, 1976

Keep on the Grass 42st boys strutting on 10th ave in Borough Park/Sunset Park, Brooklyn – 1976 So much amazing going on in this picture, lets start with a couple of the guys wearing “Female Wanted” shirts while they eye Read More …

The Expectant Hand, 1909

Union Square at the Broadway Bowery by Artist Albertus Del Orient Browere painted it from memory in 1885     The Expectant Hand   One of my favorite articles from yesteryear… This story takes place right in present day Union Read More …

The Funny Hemp Booklet, 1943

“Who grows hemp today with a busy hand, Helps themselves and the country!” -Die lustige Hanffibel, 1943 Die lustige Hanffibel, front cover – “The Funny Hemp Booklet”   The Funny Hemp Booklet In 1942 preparing for WWII, The German Reich Read More …

Keep Off The Grass, 1968

“Marijuana was the main thing that promoted non-violence amongst the youth, because as soon as they have it, they – first of all you have to laugh on your first experiences. There’s nothing else you do but laugh, and then, Read More …

Something Going On, 1930

In the Clutches of the Gang (1914) Movie   Something In Brooklyn, a vague person telephoned police headquarters. “There is something going on here,” he said. Six plain-clothes detectives and four patrolmen went to investigate. Presently the vague person again Read More …

After Eating Hasheesh, 1895

After Eating Hasheesh During quite a good half hour I felt nothing in any way abnormal, but when the meal was drawing to its close a subtle warmth, which came, as it were, in gusts to my head and seemed Read More …

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