Hippie Hero, 1967
‘Hippie Hero Dana Beal, 21, is carried on the shoulders of friends after he was released on $3,000 bail on charges of selling LSD, his arrest touched off an all night vigil by some 25 hippie friends outside the Federal Read More …
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Demon Rum, 1919
‘Demon Rum Leads To Heroin “And the last state of that man is worst than the first”‘ – Editorial cartoon showing ‘Uncle Sam’ bothered by Demon Rum and the various monsters of drug addition which follow him (laudanum, opium, cocaine, Read More …
Ipswitch Hemp Field, 1917
‘Superintendent Haney of International Harvester Company (left), South Dakota Senator Beebe, Professor Holden, and J.W. Parmley stand in a hemp field sown on May 19, 1917.’ Ipswitch, South Dakota – August 8, 1917
The American Dope Party, 1906
‘The American dope party’ “A lesson in practical patriotism taught by the Boston tea party.” Illustration shows many men dressed as Native Americans on board a ship labeled “The Good Ship Dope”, throwing cartons and boxes of adulterated and unhealthy Read More …
Cheap Way of Being Happy, 1885
“A cheap way of being happy”, The opium-joint of the Republican “irreconcilables” – Puck magazine, September 23, 1885
Mouthful, 1971
Photograph from Jerry Rubin’s Cook County Prison Journal ‘We Are Everywhere’ – 1971
It’s a Hot Summer, 1953
“Lay low, boys, Its a hot summer!”, ‘Heat Wave In St. Louis County’s Rat Alley’ from The St. Louis Post, 7-21-1953. (Included in the businesses ‘Marijuana Shoppe’)
420 Brush Strokes in the Art of War, 1915
“Carnival of 1915” ‘Danza Macabra Europea’ – WW1 Propaganda lithographs by Alberto Martini, 1915 420 Brush Strokes in the Art of War While looking through the stunning work of Alberto Martini’s ‘Danza Macabra Europea’, WW1 series of propaganda lithographs, Read More …
The Marijuana Smoker, 1940
“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”…
McKinley Political Cartoon with Cannabis, 1896
“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind.” -Samuel Read More …