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Chinatown Squad of the San Francisco Police Department posing with sledge hammers and axes in front of August Pistolesi’s grocery store at 752 Washington Street – 1895 Predecessor to the Narcotics Squad’s and DEA In this 100+ year Drug Read More …
“On this tract is a large quantity of rich bottom, fit for meadow or the culture of hemp” – Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, November 07, 1796 In 1796, the new American Government decides to auction Read More …
“If you pass along one of these avenues, in the cool hours of the afternoon, you may see troops and troops of children, jumping rope, and chasing hoop round the fountain of Union Park; and if the sun is setting Read More …
Sergeant H. D. Bakenhus of the Seattle Police Department is shown here standing among confiscated marijuana plants. September 9, 1939
“A certainty of sale, as was already observed, will be encouraged enough for the growers of hemp.” -Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799 Congress Guarantee’s the Growers of Hemp This little gem from Read More …
Spinning Machine If you follow my blog, you will find I am in love with the beauty of early photographs of spinning wheels. Something about the sophisticated elegance of simplicity, Love. Woman Spinning Hemp on “Spinning Machine” in Kentucky Read More …
Franklin D. Roosevelt 1905 I’m a Reefer Man As part of New Deal under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the Federal writers project was funded. This move by the government was to jump start the arts in Read More …
Snakes in the grass by John Knudsen – 1971
Lyster H. Dewey, with a scoop devised for taking up /”threshing” hemp seed from individual selections beaten out on canvas, Office, November 1929 Picture of Lyster Dewey and his threshing hemp technique from his personal journal found at a Read More …
When asked how much hemp used to grow in this region one farmer responded by saying, “Do you see these rice fields?” pointing to the vast checkerboard of rice fields we’d been cutting and bundling, “before the war, we didn’t Read More …