We Were Kids, 1971

“We played out our fantasies like children. We were kids playing “grown-up games.” You can be whatever you want to be when you’re a kid.” – From Jerry Rubin’s Cook County Prison Journal ‘We Are Everywhere’ – 1971  

Cannabis Is Legal: Editor has legal turn on, 1967

“I’m smoking my prescription and getting high” – The Berkeley Barb- December 8, 1967 Cannabis Is Legal   Editor has legal turn on “Isn’t Quintin Hogg an unremmitting shit? He tries to wiggle out of local honesty by talking internationally. Read More …

Turkish Submarine Hashish Smoking Sneak-a-Toke, 1908

The Nordenfelt-class Ottoman submarine Abdül Hamid (1886) was the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged. Turkish Submarine Hashish Smoking Sneak-a-Toke circa 1908 “Turkish submariners tradition were allowed to smoke hashish off duty. However officers on duty Read More …

Rattle and Smoke Dance, 1564

Rattle and Smoke Dance In 1564 the French sent a party in a attempt to colonize Florida.  Under the direction of explorers  Jean Ribault and René Laudonnière, a group ventured deep into northern Florida. Jacques le Moyne de Morgues was 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 …

Boy Lighting a Pipe, 1623

“Certain bodies… Become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark” – Marie Curie Boy Lighting a Pipe – Hendrick 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”…