High School Cannabis Education, 1950

A teacher educates a group of 9th grade students of the 636th male high school about plants on the school’s experimental farm site.  A sign identifies the large Cannabis plant in the garden.  Russia  September 1950 конопля is Russian for Read More …

Yale Smoking Contest, 1959

‘Smoking Contest’ held at Yale University in 1959       Honorable mention to the guy in the middle who showed up with the homemade glass jug hookah!      

Heidelberg University Karzer, 1900

Students at the University of Heidelberg take a break from their studies while smoking opium.  These students are housed/held in the university prison room known as the Karzer  (c. 1900)    

Cosmic Honey, 1972

Cosmic Honey   “The federal government long claimed that it knew evreything about marijuana that was necessary; it was, as US Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger used to say, “a killer drug.” But during the sixties, as middle class college students Read More …