Digging Cozine Avenue, 1951
Inspector Frank Creta watches as the ‘White Wing Squad’ digs up marijuana plants from an empty lot on Cozine Avenue. Brooklyn, New York 1951
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Sweet Bird of Youth, 1962
Paul Newman and Geraldine Page smoking hashish in ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ 1962 “This is pretty high-class pot. Where’d you get it? You beautiful, stupid young man. That is not pot. It’s hashish. Moroccan, and the finest. Read More …
Confiscated Marijuana, 1937
‘Marijuana confiscated by law enforcement official’, 1937
Cambodian Soldiers Light Up, 1973
Light Up Time: “A Cambodian soldier exhales after taking a heavy draw on his marijuana water pipe recently during a break in fighting along Route 30, south of Phnom Penh. The drug is popular with Cambodian troops, who usually smoke Read More …
Mota Motors, 1978
Officer Jerry Donovan carrying a 150 pound burlap bale of marijuana on his motorcycle down the beach. Ft. Funston Army Reserve Depot can be seen in the background. San Francisco, California – August 17, 1978
Go To Pot, 1972
Marijuana advocacy ad from a weekly newspaper in the United States from 1972
Gas Mask Puff, 1969
“We’d take a gas mask and take the filters out and tape over them, and just make a hole in one of the filters. We’d stick a joint in the gas mask and puff like mad, just keep breathing until Read More …
Greasy Joan Doth Keel the Pot
Winter When icicles hang by the wall And Dick the shepherd blows his nail And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, When Blood is nipped and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the Read More …
I Surely Would, 1970
“Honey, it’s all about drugs and promiscuous sex. Simon and Garfunkel is poetry! Yes it’s poetry. It’s the poetry of drugs and promiscuous sex. Look at the picture on the cover, they’re on pot.” -Scene from ‘Almost Famous’ El Condor Read More …
Pot is fun, 1968
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.” -Allen Ginsberg Poet Allen Ginsberg leads a group of demonstrators outside the Women’s House of Detention on Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich Village, demanding the release of prisoners arrested for use or Read More …