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Untitled watercolor by Anon, 1820. Captioned – A European, probably Sir David Ochterlony (1758-1825), in Indian dress, smoking a hookah and watching a nautch in his house at Delhi. A British Surgeon puts Ganjah on the Medical Map In Read More …
“Here is Labor, Profit, Clothing, Pleasure, Food, Navigation: Divinity, Poetry, the liberal Arts, Arm’s, Virtues defense, Vices offense, a true mans protection, a Thief’s execution. Here is mirth and matter all beaten out of this small Seed.” -John Taylor, 1620 Read More …
I can’t even make this stuff up… “You say you paid $9.oo to get that one prescription filled? Wow!” “Depends on how you look at it. That medicine kept me from missing weeks of work… Maybe saved my life. I Read More …
“Governments of opium-producing Parties are required to “purchase and take physical possession of such crops as soon as possible” after harvest to prevent diversion into the illicit market.” -from the The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961 Opium meditations Read More …
Smoking a ‘joint’ relieves his agony “We have a situation in which the Federal Government continues to spend money trying to find negative effects of marijuana while making it difficult for anyone to investigate the positive of it.” -Philadelphia Evening Read More …
Growing Erotica These medical cards for high frequency current from 1910 have a strangely erotic vibe going for them. Almost like indoor growers erotica… Notice the device plugged into the light socket in the second picture… from Read More …
“The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.” – Queen Victoria Queen Victoria by RafkinsWarning The English Patient In the middle of the 19th century, Queen Victoria had very Read More …
The Evansville daily journal, Indiana newspaper September 03, 1861 Titled: Bleeding at the Lungs Article pushing for trials on cannabis in 1861… 155 years later, we are still pushing… “Healing property of the Cannabis, we can hardly use Read More …
Cannabis the cure for corn’s in 1881… Deseret News, newspaper December 7, 1881