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 …

Hemp for Victory, 1942

1943 hemp for victory poster   Hemp for Victory In 1942 in prepreation for WW2 the United States Government decided to take drastic measures…  To hire Hemp Farmers for Victory…     Hemp for victory – Page 7 of the 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 …

Blitzed Gardens, 1942

Blitzed Gardens During the beginning of WW2, German bombers went on a night time raid over London.  Wave after wave of bombers unloaded their cargo over the populated city.  One of these bombs was dropped right next to Westminster Cathedral, Read More …

A couple that hookah’s together, 1850

Portrait of an unidentified man about 40 years of age and a somewhat younger woman, both in Oriental costume, between them is a hookah, the stem of which both are holding [between 1850 and 1860], by Mathew Brady’s studio, New Read More …

A hemp field harvest before and after Kentucky, 1905.

A hemp field harvest before and after in Auvergne, Kentucky 1905.     Cutting hemp with a binder and four-mule team circa 1905   The “tented hemp fields” after harvest, 1905

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