High Grade Vintage Cannabis photography

[Thesearch]

An old Hippy once told me "We used to smoke weed to get into it, not out of it!"

Thank you everyone for your contributions. I ran out of rep points!

Once there was a whole cannabis history museum in Vancouver BC. Though it is closed now, the walls going up the stairs to the vapor lounge upstairs between the cannabis culture headshop and the new amsterdam cafe is lined with cannabis memorobilia. Here's a little video tour, though there are more treasures hidden to be found.

https://youtu.be/I1XX2bLmPeM

Also Im not sure how to add this video properly. Hope this is ok.

 

[Thesearch]

Ok, I dug a little deeper for you all. Here are soome real treasures:

A vintage magazine exploring the history of cannabis with old black and white pictures and displaying its own history and nostalgia. Called pot shot
https://potshot.herbmuseum.ca/

And a huge swath of articles and pictures from the herb museum's archives

https://www.herbmuseum.ca/Exhibits

 

[Thesearch]

Asthma cigarettes

Asthma cigarettes

Grimault's, cannadonna and crescent marque. Note the lack of cotton filter and size.

 

[ramse]

In 1883, the discovery of a pair of plant fossils in Germany was reported, which were identified as leaves of a species of hemp, cataloged as Cannabis oligocaenica Friedrich, with uncertain dating, hypothetically considered of the Oligocene epoch (34-23 million years fa) (Friedrich, 1883a, pp. 165-166).
https://samorini.it/archeologia/asia/archeologia-della-canapa/

Samorini's website is beautiful

Macrofossils identified as Cannabis (not to scale). (A, B) Are from Friedrich, 28 and (C) Is from Palamarev. 25 (A, B) Reproduced from a publication whose copyright has expired; (C) Reproduced courtesy of Vladimir Bozukov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Macrofossils-identified-as-Cannabis-not-to-scale-A-B-Are-from-Friedrich-28-and-C_fig1_328185308

 

[Thesearch]

Tinctures, elixirs and descriptors

Tinctures, elixirs and descriptors

Just a few bottles and descriptions from the herbmuseum archives

 

[Thesearch]

The Oblivion Seekers

The Oblivion Seekers

Here is an interesting description of a kif smoking den circa 1900 by the crossdressing heiress explorer Isabelle Eberhardt

The Oblivion Seekers
In this ksar, where the people have no place to meet but the public square or the earthen benches among the foot of the ramparts on the road to Bechar, here where there is not even a café, I have discovered a kif den.
It is a partially ruined house behind the Mellah, a long hall lighted by a single eye in the ceiling of twisted and smoke-blackened beams. The walls are black, ribbed with lighter-colored cracks that look like open wounds. The floor has been made by pounding the earth, but it is soft and dusty. Seldom swept, it is covered with pomegranate rinds and assorted refuse.
This place serves as a shelter for Moroccan vagabonds, for nomads, and for every sort of person of dubious intent and questionable appearance. The house seems to belong to no one; as at a disreputable hotel, you spend a few badly-advised nights there and go on. It is a natural setting for picturesque and theatrical events, like the antechamber of the room where the crime was committed.
In one corner lies a clean red mat, with some cushions from Fez in embroidered leather. On the mat, a large decorated chest which serves as a table. A rosebush with little pale pink blooms, surrounded by a bouquet of garden herbs, all standing in water inside one of those wide earthen jars from the Tell. Further on, a copper kettle on a tripod, two or three teapots, a large basket of dried Indian hemp. The little group of kif-smokers requires no other decoration, no other mise-en-scene. They are people who like their pleasure.
On a rude perch of palm branches, a captive falcon, tied by one leg.
The strangers, the wanderers who haunt this retreat sometimes mix with the kif-smokers, notwithstanding the fact that the latter are a very closed little community into which entry is made difficult. But the smokers themselves are travelers who carry their dreams with them across the countries of Islam, worshipers of the hallucinating smoke. The men who happen to meet her at Kensadsa are among the most highly educated in the land...
Chance brought them here to Kenadsa. Soon they will set out again, in different directions and on different trails, moving unconcernedly toward the fulfillment of their separate destinies. But it was a community of taste that gathered them together in this smoky refuge, where they pass the slow hours of a life without cares.

 

[ramse]

some wonderful anatomical illustrations from the in-depth work of Briosi Giovanni & Filippo Tognini

Intorno alla anatomia della canapa (Cannabis sativa L.). I. Organi sessuali, Atti Istituto Botanico Pavia, vol. 3 - 1894

Intorno alla anatomia della canapa (Cannabis sativa L.). II. Organi vegetativi, Atti Istituto Botanico Pavia, vol. 4 - 1895

 

[Sam_Skunkman]

These are wonderful books I have them.
There is a third volume with no art.
-SamS

 

[ramse]

These are wonderful books I have them.
There is a third volume with no art.
-SamS

I agree.

you mean this?

Contributo allo studio dell'Anatomìa comparata delle Cannabineae. (In collaborazione con G. Briosi.) Nota preliminare; negli Atti dell'Istituto Botanico di
Pavia, II serie, vol II, 1888

other illustrations from volume II, Organi vegetativi

 

[ramse]

The herb Pantagruelion

"tant de vertus, tant d’energie, tant de perfections, tant d’effectz admirables“. F. Rabelais

 

[bradipo]

Screenshots from a french documentary "Histoire du trafic de drogue". Pics in Mexico during the Nixon era. Sorry for the poor quality. Green regards. B.

 

[Medfinder]

Was much to choose from in cannabis magazines in 74...

 

[chilliwilli]

Nice man, can u post the "white house dope scandal" article?

 

[clearheaded]

would u look at all those NLD hybrid leaves in ghani

 

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[mexcurandero420]

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Kentucky hemp Fayette county 1942

Keep on growing

 

[Chevy cHaze]

love me some good hedge hehehe

 

[mexcurandero420]

Wild ganja plants at Amritsar India 1894

 

[Asiatica]

This thread is the fucking tits.
Keep em coming!!!

 

[Roms]