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The hemp press comes down, 1908
“When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.” – Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Read More …
When the White House was Green
“It is necessary to cultivate our garden” – Voltaire White House conservatory earliest photo 1857 (photo taken right after construction, the green house had a wood frame which burnt in a fire in 1867) When the White House Read More …
Marijuana: Sex-Crazing Drug Menace!, 1937
Physical Culture, magazine Feb, 1937 Titled: MARIJUANA: SEX-CRAZING DRUG MENACE! “Shame and death are the evil blossoms of a sinister growth that threatens to ruin the health and minds of thousands of America’s youth.” “Scarcely known outside the medical Read More …
On the journey to Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1953
On the journey to Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1953 National Geographic, 1953
B-24 “Little Flower”, WW2
B-24 “Little Flower” from the 308th Bomb Group, flew in WW2.
Hemp field in Seney, Michigan 1920
Hemp field in Seney, Michigan 1920
A Pygmy women smoking bhang, 1982
“A Pygmy women smoking bhang. The pipe is so long that she had her kid light the bowl with a coal from the fire.” Epulu Pygmy village, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Congo 1982
University of Idaho’s first greenhouse, 1896
“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that ‘she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow’.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden University of Idaho’s first greenhouse, 1896
Rolling, Algeria Postcard 1900
I’m not saying I know what this kid’s rolling, I’m just saying I know the smile… photo by Jean Geiser- Algeria around 1900 – postcard