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A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm music festival Poynette, Wisconsin 1970 Like Acid Raindrops There had been Read More …
The Plaza in Vancouver doubling down on the propaganda films showing both ‘Marihuana’ and ‘Assassin of Youth’. Signs on theater read ‘Marijuana (Weed with Roots in Hell)’, ‘Reefer’, ‘Assassin of Youth’. Vancouver, Canada July 22, 1938
Lucknow Lounging: A reclining woman with hookah in Lucknow, India 1872
‘Woman customer holding a handmade, copper and glass marijuana water pipe at a shop’ in Los Angeles, California 1967
‘The Devil’s Weed’ movie poster. The movie originally titled ‘Wild Weed’ was made to capitalize on Lila Leeds 1948 marijuana arrest with Robert Mitchum and was released with many names including ‘She Shoulda Said No!‘. 1949
A United States soldier swaps pipes with a local in Burma, 1945 The Photograph was published on the cover of the United States Military WW2 magazine ‘Yank’ in 1945 YANK – July 1, 1945
‘I Couldn’t Smoke the Grass on my Father’s Lawn’ by Michael Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin’s son) – 1966
Reclining woman with a hookah pipe photographed by James Arthur, 1900
‘A common weed, Marijuana may even turn up in a flowerbox. This batch bordered a New York street.’ New York 1949
‘Turkish lady smoking a waterpipe’, by the Arougheti Bros Suez. Egypt 1904