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The Kendrick gazette March 19, 1909 Article: In Self Defence “Moderate smoking will be permitted subject ot restrictions as to the size of pipe and the quality of the material smoked. Onion leaves, cabbage leaves, hemp rope, horse blankets Read More …
100 Year Old Pure Silver Persian Hookah/Nargile
Merrie Melodies, Cartoon September 30, 1933 Sultan smoking from his hookah, and is UN-entertained by a belly dancer
Physical Culture, magazine Feb, 1937 Titled: MARIJUANA: SEX-CRAZING DRUG MENACE! “Shame and death are the evil blossoms of a sinister growth that threatens to ruin the health and minds of thousands of America’s youth.” “Scarcely known outside the medical Read More …
On the journey to Hajj, Saudi Arabia 1953 National Geographic, 1953
L’allumeuse de narghilé (The Nargilé Tease), Jean-Leon Gerome, 1898 – oil on canvas
“A Pygmy women smoking bhang. The pipe is so long that she had her kid light the bowl with a coal from the fire.” Epulu Pygmy village, Okapi Wildlife Reserve, Congo 1982
I’m not saying I know what this kid’s rolling, I’m just saying I know the smile… photo by Jean Geiser- Algeria around 1900 – postcard
HOOKAH LOVE- C.Keelan 1967
“THE PROPER TREATMENT FOR MARY” prohibition cartoon from Pacific Drug Review – November 1937