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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 …
Charlestown Navy Yard/rope making. Center section of the breaker machine showing comb-like teeth that separate the hemp. 1917-1934 Hemp for the Navy “Stands of hemp such as this one which was grown in Henry County last year, and is Read More …
Chinatown Squad of the San Francisco Police Department posing with sledge hammers and axes in front of August Pistolesi’s grocery store at 752 Washington Street – 1895 Predecessor to the Narcotics Squad’s and DEA In this 100+ year Drug Read More …
“On this tract is a large quantity of rich bottom, fit for meadow or the culture of hemp” – Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, November 07, 1796 In 1796, the new American Government decides to auction Read More …
“we’d prefer to look on the panty raid as a rather harmless bit of frivolity that college kids should engage in once in a while. It’s a better escape from this meaningless world than marijuana and LSD. And we’d prefer Read More …
United States Marines use flamethrowers to burn cannabis field in Illinois. 1957 Operation Burn out In the 50’s, the United States was left with a stockpile of weapons of war left over from WW2. With the war won, Read More …
“Sallie Gardner at Gallop” by Eadward Muybridge in 1878. Consists of 24 photographs in a fast-motion series “Pick-me-ups” for tired animals In 1892 comes this little gem of an article describing how tired animals are energized with cannabis. Interesting they Read More …
“Through cobbled streets so cold and damp The Knocker-Upper man goes creeping Tap-tapping at the window pane To wake the town from sleeping. He said “Eh thee up and stir thi’self The factory ooter’s blowin’ So get up from your Read More …
“A certainty of sale, as was already observed, will be encouraged enough for the growers of hemp.” -Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799 Congress Guarantee’s the Growers of Hemp This little gem from Read More …
“There has been little evidence in Canada to support an association of cannabis with crimes of violence. Nor is there any suggestion that cannabis users are obliged to engage to any significant extent in a career of petty crime to Read More …