Lost in Exquisite Intoxication, 1884
“I turn, I twist, I twirl. I melt, I fade, I dissolve. No diaphanous cloud is so light and airy as I. I admire the ease with which I float. My gracefulness fills me with delight. My body is not Read More …
Tag: marihuana
A Mexican Priest Flogs the Corpse of a Dead Wizard, 1887
Cupid Chastised – Bartolomeo Manfredi – between 1605 and 1610 A Mexican Priest Flogs the Corpse of a Dead Wizard I couldn’t even make this stuff up if I tried… “Yesterday at Villa Libre, the parish priest, in Read More …
Prohibition is a Joke to Police, 1951
Prohibition is a Joke to Police September 6, 1951 Like any other morning Police started to arrive to work at the Van Nuys station in California. What they didn’t know is a dinner party mystery awaited them this day… Read More …
Goats that feed on Dope, 1909
New York tribune, April 11, 1909 Article: Goats that feed on “Dope” The men who stare at goats The Mexican Herald is responsible for so much early misinformation in their own quest to criminalize cannabis in Mexico. Spewing crazy Read More …
In her Victory Garden, 1945
“In her Victory Garden, the seeds grow all around, She plants you dig, she’s flipped her wig, Sweet Marihuana Brown” -Barney Bigard Sextet victory garden, M. Rose Sweet Marihuana Brown Boy she’s really fancy, the wildest chick in town. Read More …
Smuggling Mariguana Territory, 1897
Point of no return, front gate Yuma Territory Prison Smuggling Mariguana Territory This small catch by a Yuma Territory prison guard in 1897 gets treated like the crime stop of the decade, with the tale getting reprinted for years 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 …
Hemp field in Seney, Michigan 1920
Hemp field in Seney, Michigan 1920
THE PROPER TREATMENT FOR MARY, 1937
“THE PROPER TREATMENT FOR MARY” prohibition cartoon from Pacific Drug Review – November 1937
Charas Officer, 1929
Why post this guys picture you ask? In 1929 this guy had an amazing job even by today’s standards. His Job title? “Charas-Officer”, Quality control if you will, for the charas (hashish) imported to India from Badakhshan and Kashmir. Growing Read More …