Kentland Hemp Pickers, 1969

‘The jail cell here is crowded with hippies arrested for attempting to harvest the area’s wild marijuana crop which grows in ditches and pastures. Police have arrested 24 long haired types from all over the country on charges of possessing Read More …

Piles of Confiscated Marijuana Burn, 1942

‘Deputy Police Commissioner John Morris holds marijuana plants as piles of confiscated marijuana burn in the background.’  New York City  1942          

Liamba Leaf, 1890

Illustration of a ‘Liamba Leaf’ aka Wild Hemp (cannabis) from the book  ‘Adventures in the great forest of equatorial Africa and the country of the dwarfs’ by Du Chaillu & Paul Belloni in 1890     Liamba Leaf “I found Read More …

Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land, 1931

    Despised Weed Adds Value to Farm Land Farmers of the Imperial Valley, in California, have found wild hemp, a familiar weed, will in two or three months replenish exhausted soil as thoroughly as alfalfa and do the job Read More …

Washtenaw Grass, 1954

‘Washtenaw county vice squad officers examine some of the more than 200 pounds of marijuana plants confiscated yesterday. The plants, found growing wild on two farms within a 15-mile radius of Ann Arbor, were trucked to the Willow Village Sheriff’s Read More …