
What Comes From Hemp, 1873
Wat er van hennep komt by J. Vlieger (from Amsterdam) in 1873 What Comes From Hemp A cute little booklet published in 1873 by a dutch author targeted just one subject… Hemp! The title for the book would Read More …
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Wat er van hennep komt by J. Vlieger (from Amsterdam) in 1873 What Comes From Hemp A cute little booklet published in 1873 by a dutch author targeted just one subject… Hemp! The title for the book would Read More …
‘Nike’, 1994 U.S. Customs Service/ Treasury Department issued Drug Sniffing Dogs trading card
‘Demon Rum Leads To Heroin “And the last state of that man is worst than the first”‘ – Editorial cartoon showing ‘Uncle Sam’ bothered by Demon Rum and the various monsters of drug addition which follow him (laudanum, opium, cocaine, Read More …
‘Vanitas Still Life with a Bouquet and a Skull’ by Adriaen van Utrecht in 1642
‘Miniature Painting of Fakirs Preparing and Partaking in Bhang and Ganja’. India c.1750
‘Hemp workers’ engraving created by Lallemand and Levy, published in the ‘L’Illustration, journal universel’, Paris, France 1860
‘La Grande Odalisque’ by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1814 Chibouk pipe and incense box detail
“The Pied Piper of Peril!”, Detective Comics #143 – 1949
‘Dai nijūichi zu’ woodcut by Harunobu Suzuki in 1770 The print shows a woman using a ‘kenka kiseru’ or fighting pipe to beat a man who has been spying on her. The Japanese long pipes were often reinforced for use Read More …
‘The Devil’s Weed’ movie poster. The movie originally titled ‘Wild Weed’ was made to capitalize on Lila Leeds 1948 marijuana arrest with Robert Mitchum and was released with many names including ‘She Shoulda Said No!‘. 1949