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“loving a haze of hasheesh for making the brain go wrong” -Damon Runyon Alfred ‘Damon Runyon’ ROSES OF A DREAM Many songwriters have woven there love of cannabis into their art. But before Guthrie and Dylan there was Damon Runyon. Read More …
Chloroformic Visions Love the poetic writing in this article. They just don’t write the same anymore… “My last sane recollection is of the surgeon applying the handkerchief to my mouth” “So swift are the evolutions of thought Read More …
The day book, June 09, 1913 fire fighter smoke inhalation
“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 …
You have your Band… You have your sound… You have the look… You have your gigs… You have your smoke… Now time to get them groupie’s… Ad in the “Ann Arbor Sun”, May 28, 1969 The Read More …
Cannabis Marching Song The sweet cadence of a marching song echoed through time. This one from Mexico had a little bit of cannabis soul… Many historic marching songs have been sung by armies all over the world. The steady rhythmic Read More …
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 …
The Nation Makers, by Howard Pyle, c. 1902 First shot’s in America’s war on Cannabis That single moment, however dilute, that wars are started… That moment was when the United States declared cannabis as a “Poison”, April 16, 1860… Read More …
Cultivating Criminals Out fighting the scourge of mother nature, this Sheriff completly missed the 4 foot tall cannabis plant the inmates were cultivating… Madera Tribune,November 8, 1948 Prisoners’ Round – Vincent van Gogh – 1890
This public question from 1912 makes me smile… But the answer… “Are there any specimens of Indian hemp (cannabis indica), the common hemp, from which hasheesh is obtained, growing in the San Francisco parks? Was it ever grown there?” Read More …