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Hemp plant workers, Mapleton, Minnesota 1943 Our Home Hasheesh Crop The hemp plant, the source of the drug hasheesh, is one of the commonest weeds of the country; but there is little danger that it will seriously promote the drug Read More …
Fayette County, Kentucky 1942
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 …
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. – Abraham Lincoln The Violet House section of the White Read More …
Hemp for Traitors’ Civil War Postal Cover (printed picture on envelope) By J.F. Nash (out of Boston) 1861-1865. I always thought these to be standard size (around 4in x 9 1/2in or so) but these are the small Read More …
“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”…
“A Cheyenne woman offering pipe to earth during a sun dance ceremony”, by Edward S. Curtis. 1910
“The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.” – NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE “Closer cooperation in the control of the use of marihuana weed is expected to be the outcome of Read More …
“This day [September 4, 1609] the people of the country came aboord of us, seeming very glad of our comming, and brought greene tobacco, and gave us of it for knives and beads. They goe in deere skins loose, well Read More …
Heigh-Ho We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig In our mine the whole day through To dig dig dig dig dig dig dig Is what we like to do It ain’t no trick to get rich quick If you Read More …