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“I think these hundreds of princely costumes are changed every fifteen minutes during half the night; splendid pageants are filing about the stage constantly, yet one seems never to see the same dress twice. The final grand transformation scene is Read More …
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …
Mitchum’s attorney, the famed Jerry Giesler, told the court the indictment against his handsome client was void and invalid because its language was “indefinite, uncertain, and unintelligible.” “Parts of it,” he said, “aren’t even in the English language. The only Read More …
“The Marijuana Smoker” The Vidette Messenger, Indiana newspaper – July 19, 1940 Sign says “Pan-American Continence”, hat of smoker says Latin America and his bubble reads “Nazi Propaganda”…
“Lady, Poya night, Devil dance, Lady like see?” It was our appoo (house servant) who spoke, I had commissioned him to a acquire all information concerning the holding of such rites, made up of barbarism, superstition and genuine Oriental occultism. Read More …
Tipalet tobacco ad 1970’s
“It was an insurrection of the negroes, who were that night to have set fire to the large and beautiful town of St. Pierre… The combustibles were laid were laid in upwards of 100 houses (consisting of hemp dipt in Read More …
The Cat’s Meow Arrested and charged with selling an undercover cop fake marijuana, Harlem, 1941. Judge got joke’s… The New York Times August 21, 1941
Heigh-Ho We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig In our mine the whole day through To dig dig dig dig dig dig dig Is what we like to do It ain’t no trick to get rich quick If you Read More …
A 1986 photo shows the Beltway overpass, Mormon Temple in Kensington in the background Surrender Dorothy Since its dedication in 1974, silhouetting the D.C. Landscape with a emerald city esq vision, the Mormon Temple in Kensington has Read More …