High Grade Vintage Cannabis photography

[bushweed]

Thai military grow op 1976...

 

[VonBudí]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=329844

2 vintage qs for folk
1)what is the oldest recorded song about reefer?
2)years ago i was flicking through a book of 60/70s photographs, there was a black&white photo of a hells angel/biker holding a brick of weed looking in to the camera, has anyone seen this photo?

 

[igrowone]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=329844

2 vintage qs for folk
1)what is the oldest recorded song about reefer?
2)years ago i was flicking through a book of 60/70s photographs, there was a black&white photo of a hells angel/biker holding a brick of weed looking in to the camera, has anyone seen this photo?

may not be the oldest, but reefer man from cab calloway in 1932 comes to mind

If he trades you dimes for nickels
And calls watermelon's pickles
Then you know
You're talkin' to that reefer man

 

[cultivatorkid]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=329844

2 vintage qs for folk
1)what is the oldest recorded song about reefer?
2)years ago i was flicking through a book of 60/70s photographs, there was a black&white photo of a hells angel/biker holding a brick of weed looking in to the camera, has anyone seen this photo?

may not be the oldest, but reefer man from cab calloway in 1932 comes to mind

If he trades you dimes for nickels
And calls watermelon's pickles
Then you know
You're talkin' to that reefer man

probably a jazz song

Louis Armstrong's "Muggles" was recorded in Chicago on December 7, 1928

 

[billycw]

1)what is the oldest recorded song about reefer?

Recorded is a tricky word...

Songs about cannabis date back to at least 2,350 b.c. from asia 'recorded' in 'The Book of Odes' aka the book of songs ...

'Qiu Zhong You Ma' just one of many from 'the book of odes'

Even before jazz in American culture you had cannabis use in songs.

This one dating to 1908 but don't think the audio was ever 'recorded', but written none the less...

ROSES OF A DREAM

A woman's a scent of perfume; a snatch of a
passing song,
And loving a haze of hasheesh for making the brain
go wrong;
Dear Christ! But I loved the odor, the music spoke
Heaven to me
(Hark! That's the pound of the breakers and the roar
of the open sea!)

Somehow I'm thinking of roses but blessing
the coral bar
That sends me the song of the breakers my thinking might
wander too far;
Somehow I'm thinking of roses and dreaming and dreaming
Ah, me!
(Hark! That's the throb of the breakers and the sound
of the open sea!)

Somehow I m thinking of roses and scenting
a rose perfume;
Oh, this is the springtime yonder, and roses are coming
to bloom!
And soon it will be white summer but what can it
mean to me?
(Hark! There's the song of the breakers and the voice
of the open sea!)

Somehow I m thinking of roses and light and a
lilting song
(But loving's a haze of hasheesh for making the brain
go wrong.)
Of roses of white and crimson of dusk and a
friendly tree
(Hark! There's the sound of the breakers and the roar
of the open sea!)

Aye, a woman s a scent of perfume, the breath of a
fading rose
And music don't last forever, however
sweetly it goes;
But somehow I m thinking of roses that carry
an ancient plea
(Thank God! There's the throb of the breakers and the
roar of the open sea!)

A woman's a scent of perfume, a snatch of a
passing song
And loving a haze of hasheesh for making the brain
go wrong
Did I say that I loved the odor? Ah, well, let
the roses be
(Hark! There s the wail of the breakers and the sigh
of the open sea!)

By Damon Runyon

Goodwin's weekly; a thinking paper for thinking people, July 11, 1908

Damon Runyon

 

[Madjag]

@billycw

Awesome find!!

 

[billycw]

Originally Posted by VonBudí

1)what is the oldest recorded song about reefer?

One more that predates my last and is a piece of American History dating to 1860-1861...


"That herb well deserves cultivation,
Oh scatter its seed all around,—
Let it flourish in every plantation,
While Rebels and Traitors abound.
Down, down with the tyrant “King Cotton,”
King Hemp holds the rascal in check.
If you cant cure the heart that’s all rotten,
Try a bandage of Hemp on the neck."


Physic for Traitor's - 1860's

Anteitam battle field on the day of the battle September 16,1862


Lots of early history also on my thread here: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=322479

 

[mexcurandero420]

From the Great Book of Cannabis Volume I Book II (Laurence Cherniak)

Keep on growing

 

[mexcurandero420]

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This doesn't say WHY it was growing in abandoned lots in Brooklyn. It was there because what marijuana was smoked in NY at the time was Mexican brick weed, sativas, which contained tons of seeds. Just as everyone else, you didn't put them in the trash or throw them out the window, they flushed them down the toilets. Since it was a big crime to be caught with weed in the 50s. So mixed with the ever-so-powerful fertilizer of human shit, giant plants popped near sewers, alleys and abandoned lots. This happened in most large cities.

Keep on growing

 

[jefe noche]

I am so happy to see these types of anthropologic archives happy and well sought after here. I would love to see a hardcover of all these compiled. What a read for the den, waiting room, man room, ect. Awesomeness

 

[StRa]

Kees Hoekert

 

[hoopla]

What a blast-from-the-past! Thank you!!

 

[ZIO GREEN]

Kees Hoekert

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Old school selfie

 

[mexicani-ar]

Great thread, saludos Mexicani-ar

 

[mexcurandero420]

DJ Short in Eugene, Oregon, in November 1979, holding a Chocolate Thai marijuana plant.

Keep on growing

 

[delicorganic]

Great thread!

Great thread!

as this thread gets older,it becomes a real treasure..
All these photos together are kind of a map of cannabis,all that's left is for growers to surf it!!
in these 90 pages very usefull images and experiences are posted that many people love to see and hear..
they are also very usefull for people that are digging deep for knowledge,truth and memories..

 

[StRa]

Lowland Seeds Company headquarter

 

[cravin morehead]

I have nothing to contribute to this thread, but I love it. Awesome history here. Thanks for posting your stuff guys

Cm

 

[ahortator]

https://archive.org/details/SuperGrassGrowersGuide

https://archive.org/details/DrugManufactureForFunAndProfit

 

[Azaghal]

Thanks to everyone for all these contributions to this thread !

The pictures are a great reminder that the relationship between Cannabis and Humanity is long and interwined and that it was one of earliest crops to be domesticated and also one of the most important.

Below is a humble contribution to this great thread in form of a picture out of an botanical german book, published in 1967.

Cheers