Party at Powder Ridge, 1970

“There will be no festival. I can assure you of that,” -State Sen. John Pickett of Middletown Crowds at Powder Ridge Rock Festival July 31, 1970 Party At Powder Ridge The Festival that was never to be quickly turned into Read More …

Musical Marijuana, 1865

  Gypsy Musicians perform in the Russian Empire, 1865   Musical Marijuana From humanities earliest musical notes, the fans who followed the sound have shared in a ancient musical tradition handed down for centuries: smoking cannabis! Smoking hashish from a Read More …

Like Acid Raindrops, 1970

A man wearing a hat, shorts, and fringed vest, with a pipe strung onto hit belt loop, dances among a crowd of other audience members at the Sound Storm music festival Poynette, Wisconsin 1970 Like Acid Raindrops There had been Read More …

Stamping Ground, 1970

Kralingen Pop Festival in Rotterdam, Holland 1970 Crowd smokes cannabis at the Kralingen Pop Festival, Rotterdam, Holland 1970     Stamping Ground – Kralingen Pop festival 1970

Easter in Full Swing

“So high, the highest Hemp” -‘Big Hemp’ Slavic Easter song   Family around the swing, 1890’s     Easter in Full Swing Across the world families wake Easter morning to hunt for eggs with a huge meal to follow, sliding Read More …

Kanapinis: Return of the Hemp Man

Posing with the Hemp Man   Kanapinis: Return of the Hemp Man What if I told you there was a day where from sun up to sun down you were not only offered but expected to eat delicious fried pancakes Read More …

To Autumn, 1783

The San Francisco call, November 23, 1902   To Autumn O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stain’d With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest, And tune thy jolly voice Read More …

Dance of the Hemp Dragon

  舞麻龙 “hemp Dragon Dance”, Sichuan Province, China   Dance of the Hemp Dragon Ancient Chinese hemp harvest festival’s created a magical day of celebration.  This celebration would birth a magical creature…  The Hemp Dragon… For the Qiang people living Read More …