Fumeur de Hachiche, 1900
“EGYPTE – fumeur de Hachiche” The Hashish Smoker, Egyptian postcard from around 1900
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The English Flower, 1906
“well-grown plants looking graceful. It should be sown in the open ground” – ‘The English flower garden and home grounds’ by William Robinson 1906 The English flower garden and home grounds – William Robinson 1906 Cannabis Sativa (Hemp Plant) Read More …
The Intoxicating Twain of Hasheesh, 1865
“I think these hundreds of princely costumes are changed every fifteen minutes during half the night; splendid pageants are filing about the stage constantly, yet one seems never to see the same dress twice. The final grand transformation scene is Read More …
Keep Off the Grass, 1968
Warning: Smoking marijuana may be injurious to your police record. – ‘Keep Off the Grass’, article From Teen magazine, January 1968
Malana Charas
Woman making charas, “lady in the foreground is carrying cut cannabis plants and -not to waste time- is extracting cannabis resin, while walking.” Malana, India
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled, 1904
Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled “An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward Read More …
In Benares Chillum, 1970
Man squatting on street smoking a chillum, Benares, India 1970
Hemp For Traitors, 1861
Hemp for Traitors’ Civil War Postal Cover (printed picture on envelope) By J.F. Nash (out of Boston) 1861-1865. I always thought these to be standard size (around 4in x 9 1/2in or so) but these are the small Read More …
Specimens of Male and Female Hemp, 1893
“Specimens of male(right) and female(left) hemp plants from the seed field, Khandwa, India” October 28, 1893, from the British ‘Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895’ Plate 97
Reefer Resort, 1948
Mitchum’s attorney, the famed Jerry Giesler, told the court the indictment against his handsome client was void and invalid because its language was “indefinite, uncertain, and unintelligible.” “Parts of it,” he said, “aren’t even in the English language. The only Read More …