Hippie Hero, 1967
‘Hippie Hero Dana Beal, 21, is carried on the shoulders of friends after he was released on $3,000 bail on charges of selling LSD, his arrest touched off an all night vigil by some 25 hippie friends outside the Federal Read More …
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Cannabis Camouflage, 1916
‘Australian fighters pose with a captured Turkish sniper disguised as a cannabis bush’. The Turkish sniper was photographed immediately after capture while he was being brought in under guard. He was camouflaged by a Jack-in-the-Green arrangement of cannabis foliage attached Read More …
Marihuana May Not Be Grown In This City, 1917
Marihuana May Not Be Grown In This City ‘No more may the festive “marihuana” be grown in the city of Phoenix. Not that it is known to have ever been propagated here to any considerable extent. Nor may it Read More …
Pigs are Spinning, 1673
‘Varkens die spinnen’ (Pigs are Spinning), woodblock protest print with the message “The Great Mortality among the Westphalian Wives / how that the Pigs should spin / to win a living for the men”. The print is a animal allegory Read More …
Italian POW Cannabis Garden, 1915
Cannabis garden curated by Italian prisoners of war under the control of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at Ljubljana Castle, Austria (present day Slovenia) during WW1 between 1915-1919
Smoking in Saigon, 1971
‘American GI’s smoke marijuana at an off-base apartment in Saigon’, Vietnam 1971
Mueller Report, 1978
‘Robert S. Mueller III, then Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Francisco, and Daniel Addario, Special Agent in charge, DEA San Francisco, standing in front of a 547 pound hashish seizure’. Concord, California January 1978
Mercy 5.5 Tons of Marijuana, 1971
‘5.5 tons of marijuana in a Hertz truck, loaded off two vessels. The larger boat is the Andiamo, the smaller one the Mercy Wiggins AKA the Ruth Ann’. San Francisco, California May 5, 1971 Walter Pardaen with the life Read More …
Cannabis Cargo, 1980’s
Marijuana discovered hidden within a trucks cargo, early 1980’s
RIP Nevil Schoenmakers
“Taken too soon on March 30, 2019. You fought bravely but lost the battle. Know that your dream will live on Nevil and the world will be a better place because of it.” – Obituary from his family in The Read More …