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"The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them."
- Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria by RafkinsWarning


The English Patient


"Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife."
- Queen Victoria


Queen Victoria had hard pregnancies, taking a toll on the young royal. In turn she was not thrilled with pregnancy. Searching for something to ease her symptoms during her first pregnancy in 1840, the Royal Physician Sir John Russell Reynolds tried many cure's of the time including opium and cocaine extracts to no avail... That is until his friend WB O'Shaughnessy came back into town introducing the wonders of Indian Hemp to J.R. Reynolds...

This new Indian Hemp made into a tincture eased the Queens pains so much that it was used during her labor later that year with great success... Sir J.R. Reynolds noted that the Indian hemp had no ill effect on the baby...

Queen Victoria under her physician J.R. Reynolds, continued her cannabis treatment for menstrual cramps, morning sickness and during her pregnancies including during labor of her 7 children and continued to use the indian hemp tincture throughout her life...

Sir John Russell Reynolds (1828–1896) by Joseph Hodges

 

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continued part 2 of 3...

Royal physician Sir J.R. Reynolds continued his studies and used his Indian hemp tinctures with great success through out his life...

In March 15, 1890 "The Lancet" a weekly medical journal published a article from "W.W" negatively deplicting cannabis, Sir Reynolds felt strongly enough to come to the defense of cannabis the very next week...


"Therapeutical Uses and Toxic Effects of Cannabis Indica"
by Royal physician Sir J.R. Reynolds

The Lancet, March 22,1890

 

[billycw]

continued part 3 of 3...

One of the main points Sir J.R. Reynolds came to was securing a reliable source for medical cannabis...


"1. That the drug is one which, by its nature and the forms
of its administration, is liable to great variations in strength.
For practical purposes, its active principle has not been
separated, and extracts, as well as tinctures made from the
extract or from the plant, cannot be made uniform; because
the hemp grown during different seasons, and in different
places, varies in the amount that it contains of the thera-
peutic agent. It is desirable, therefore, that it should always
be obtained from the same source"


This lead to Medical Cannabis being grown in many Royal gardens throughout the world...


The Royal Gardens in Kew, Surrey, England
cannabis indica sample grown in 1896 at The Royal Gardens in Kew

sample grown at The Royal Gardens in Kew, Surrey, England


the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia
Cannabis grown in 1901

A cannabis plant on display at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. Picture: Daniel Solander Library at the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, Australia.

 

[Londinium]

Dat Original UK Indica lol....wonder if it was Cheesey

 

[billycw]

prince albert pipe tobacco 1944

 

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Israeli women smoking hookah. Photograph by Paul Schutzer. Israel, May 1960

 

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Herald Democrat, newspaper
February 7, 1902
titled: Taft tells of Spanish Ways; hemp's in great demand



"Smuggling is a fine art"
-President William Taft

President Taft on a Buffalo (c. 1904), from when he was serving as governor of the Philippines.



Herald Democrat, newspaper, February 7, 1902

"No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people."
-President William Taft

 

[billycw]

Annabel Lee


It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes! - that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

By Edgar Allan Poe

Crepuscular Old Man - Salvador Dali - c.1917-18

 

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Maryjane (1968)
movie poster

 

[billycw]

“ We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.”
- Tao Saying

 

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National Geographic
July 1953

National Geographic - On the journey to Hajj, 1953

 

[billycw]

"So Jack called his mother,
and they both gazed in silent wonder at the Beanstalk,
which was not only of great height,
but was thick enough to bear Jack’s weight.

`I wonder where it ends,’ said Jack to his mother;

`I think I will climb up and see.’"


- Jack and the beanstalk

 

[billycw]

1948 NYPD Narcotics arrest, news video. Five men and one woman were busted in a 1948 NYPD raid.


1948 NEW YORK CITY MARIJUANA BUST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3dyFDhqWZk
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Busted: Five men and one woman were busted in a 1948 NYPD raid; here, two of the arrested men gaze glassily into the camera

 

[billycw]

"The Foolish Man Seeks Happiness in the Distance, The Wise Man Grows it Under his Feet."
-Proverb

Turkish farmer - Sebah and Joaillier 1890-1900

 

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Merrie Melodies
September 30, 1933
Cartoon

Sultan smoking from his hookah, and is un-entertained by a belly dancer

 

[billycw]

Classic of Poetry, aka Book of Songs, Book of Odes, Shijing, Shih-ching or the She-king


Book of Odes


Some of humanities earliest poetry to survive the ancient world were written down by Confucius around 500 BC in the Book of Odes. Many of these document man kinds early cultivation of none other then Hemp...

pg.303


This collection of Chinese poetry is thought to date back as far as 2,350 BC - 1,800 BC but, much being in the form of song, could date back orally even further. Additions were made with songs and poetry being added up until about 600 BC.

Confucius around the year 500 BC compiled all the writings in part of his 5 classic books. Confucius said a lot of things but what history likes to leave out is what Confucius said about hemp...

p.168

p.183



Even ancient farming knowledge can be found in these early poems like this the earliest example of using potash fertilizer in agriculture...


"Hoe up all the weeds in the field during the summer solstice (June 21), let them dry in the sun, and then bum them into ash. All these ashes will permeate into the soil after a heavy rain and the soil will be fertilized."


Another example of early cultivation techniques is told in how they planted the hemp fields is repeated a couple of times...

"Hemp seed to sow, this is the course we take,
the acres lengthwise and across we dress."

p.135

 

[billycw]

Continued part 2 of 2...

Everything from seed to harvest were written down in the Book of Odes, even techniques for producing fabric were described for all to learn...

p.169

p.182


Out of the 305 works in the book, many include hemp. This one even has a eerie vibe of popularity or persecution to me...

p.44-45


Confucius say, was a popular opening to many joke taglines throughout the years. What Confucius say's in "the Book of Odes" would have been much more useful to humanity to repeat.

Confucius

 

[billycw]

One of my favorites although I never found who the artist was... I always thought it was Jean-Leon Gerome but was unable to verify, if anyone knows please let me know.

Update: an amazing forum member found the artist and let me know, Thank you...

A Kashmiri nautch girl with a hookah - Mortimer Menpes (1860-1938)

 

[billycw]

“The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.”

-William Makepeace Thackeray

French postcard of music group, aka best band photo ever... c.1884

 

[billycw]

"I find it quite ironic that the most dangerous thing about weed is getting caught with it.."

– BILL MURRAY

Bill fucking Murray

We have all heard one of a myriad of awesome Bill Murray stories... Showing up out of nowhere at a random house party, joining a party of strangers for karaoke, bowling or any other amazing scenario he randomly popped up in. One of my favorites, head down just ordering food, with food on tray someone grabs some french fries, they look up and its Bill Murray and he say's "No one will ever believe you" and walks away...

But the one that stands out most to me is the one in 1970 where he tried to smuggle 10 pounds of cannabis onto a plane from Chicago to Colorado...


Chicago Tribune Sept. 22, 1970 page 3

So the story goes, Bill Murray on break from college, flies back home to Chicago but on the way back, he picks up 5 two pound bricks to bring back to buddies.

Standing in line at the airport holding 10 pounds he's, of course, making jokes about having bomb's in his bag...

Overheard by the ticket agent, they call in the cops... In this case they were already waiting for him being ratted on by someone already...

He just had time to swallow one key object, a check from the financier protecting everyone's identities involved...

Bill would later say "That guy owes me his life and reputation,"

"This is s hybrid. This is a cross between Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent and Northern California Sinsimilla. The amazing thing about this stuff is you can play holes on it in the afternoon, take it home, and just get stoned to the bejeezus at night on this stuff. I've got pounds of this stuff."

- as Karl in "Caddyshack"


Can we just have a golf clap and moment of silence for the greatness that is Bill fucking Murray...