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3 Inch Tall Runaway Sought By Police “Police demanded entry into apartment. Making up a fairy tale about a runaway boy, they left no possibility untouched. Evidently the suspect is quite small as they, 2 males and 1 woman, Read More …
A hemp field harvest before and after in Auvergne, Kentucky 1905. Cutting hemp with a binder and four-mule team circa 1905 The “tented hemp fields” after harvest, 1905
Point of no return, front gate Yuma Territory Prison Smuggling Mariguana Territory This small catch by a Yuma Territory prison guard in 1897 gets treated like the crime stop of the decade, with the tale getting reprinted for years Read More …
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 …
“When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.” – Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Read More …
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
Jeffersonian Republican, newspaper July 16, 1846 titled: Lock Jaw Cured “Dr. Isaac Hiester, of Reading, PA, in the month of April last, cured Charles Sassaman, a lad, sixteen years of age, by the use of a solution of the Read More …
L’allumeuse de narghilé (The Nargilé Tease), Jean-Leon Gerome, 1898 – oil on canvas