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[billycw]

In 1936 this innocent image was as American as apple pie. A little girl with her bow and arrow playing in front of the families cannabis plants...

In less then 2 years, descending federal and state agents would legally brandish assault rifles pointed at family members while they tear apart the very 'Fabric of American family', pun intended...

That is if she wasn't shot for having a weapon...


Supposing this is years later... I thought it would be fun to play...


Name Those Felonies?...

Girl with bow in front of hemp ca. 1936 - Sauk County (Wisconsin) 'Taken at the shack, near Baraboo, Wisconsin.'

 

[geneva_sativa]

Greetings and good tidings, Billy !

I love your posts, always unusual, interesting and informative. Those pieces with the guys and cow that ingest dynamite. . . good gawd, man !

Funny, crazy history. Your keen appreciation of the stories from the past, I'm sure, blesses you with all the more insight into our present day world.

Enjoy the day !

g_s

 

[billycw]

Thank you geneva_sativa, I feel like the more puzzle pieces you get the scarier the reality of our current situation becomes... I'm just trying to gather the pieces before they scatter...


David Bowie- I'm Afraid Of Americans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7APmRkatEU
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[billycw]

I really appreciate everyone who's following along at home, it makes me a little more like the 'man behind the mask' and a little less then the 'dude over there talking to stuffed animals'

'Man in Richard Nixon mask smokes a joint after taking his pants off'. Marijuana Smoke-In and March from Central Park to Washington Square. May 30, 1974



And then you think, "Wait, why did he take off his pants?"

 

[nksv]

I am following the shit out of this legendary thread!

 

[bombadil.360]

And then you think, "Wait, why did he take off his pants?"

this is one instance where you don't wanna see photographic evidence of such things.

 

[billycw]

this is one instance where you don't wanna see photographic evidence of such things.

Dude has obviously never been arrested without pants on before

I am following the shit out of this legendary thread!

Thanks nksv, at this point I have more saved then written, some of histories bigger bomb shells to come. Just need that precious time

 

[billycw]

"Ask for Moorhouse's No. 6 Cigars" tobacco ad date unknown

 

[billycw]

"I received the warmest of welcomes. It was difficult to think so amiable a man could ever find himself a duellist perforce. Gentle of speech, clear of eye, wondrously steady of hand, spare, lithe, and muscular of body, a man of middle age and ever smiling face, whose brown mustaches were just streaked with grey - that was the man whose challenge to a pistol duel I had accepted."

-1908 challenger to Walter Winans duel

Bloodless Duel between Dr. Graeme M. Hammond and C.B. Miller - Carnegie Hall gymnasium, March 10, 1909


Wax for Lead

Suiting up in what can only be described as a Victorian Mad Max, pistol wielding duelist go to war...

This duel of gentleman however is to be Bloodless...

Bloodless Duel between Dr. Graeme M. Hammond and C.B. Miller - Carnegie Hall gymnasium, March 10, 1909


Developed by Dr. de Villers in Paris, the sport of bloodless dueling was short lived but badass...

The ordinary dueling pistols would be filled with a bullet with wax and fat replacing the deadly lead...

Predecessor to the paintball, these Victorian paintball duels had all the feel of the deadly duels with little more then your pride that dies as a result...

the Parisian Club de Pistolet in Paris, 1905


The Daily democrat., February 02, 1907

 

[billycw]

Bloodless Duel between Dr. Graeme M. Hammond and C.B. Miller - Carnegie Hall gymnasium, March 10, 1909


The Bloodless Duels became so popular they even made an appearance at the 1908 Olympics in Paris...

"One of the most curious contests at the Olympic Games is the duelling with wax bullets. The combatants are as elaborately protected as a German student duellist, and even the revolver has a large hand-guard. The helmet has a plate-glass window."

Pistol dueling as an associate event at the 1908 London Olympic Games


These bloodless duels didn't always turn out so bloodless, with the match sometimes ending in red drips due to over packed charges behind the wax...

During a interview and mock bloodless duel with a reporter, Walter Winans accidentally shot the hand of the reporter with a over packed charge...

Walter Winans retelling of the event

"When I first tried it several years ago, I shot out the soft piece of flesh connecting the thumb and forefinger of the right hand of M. Gustave Voulquin, the well-known sports writer; and he tells me it still pains him when he has a lot of writing to do."

Along with the very real possibility of a lead bullet, this incident shook the confidence of more then a few participants in this new "sport" like this article from a hesitant reporter in the newspapers in 1908...


Star - newspaper article, June 27, 1908

1908 bloodless dueling pistols


It would be almost 80 years before you could again safely shoot your friends in a bloodless duel...

If we only followed history, the times we could have had...


Friends, check, Mad Max gear, check, Dueling pistols, check, wax bullets, check, Now...

"Fill your hands, you son of a bitch"

Mr W. Bean, Captain MacDonnell & Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon posing with bloodless dueling equipment at the Bartitsu Club 1907

 

[billycw]

Lyster Dewey, with a scoop devised for "threshing" hemp seed from individual selections. c.1919

Picture of Lyster Dewey threshing hemp in his personal journal found at a yard sale. c.1919

 

[billycw]

Asamaki: sowing hemp in late April, Miasa Mura, Japan 1944


"...before the red of apple buds become a sign in the low orchards, or the high song of the thrush is pouring forth far away at wet pale-green sunsets, the sower, the earliest sower of the hemp, goes forth into the fields."

James Allen, 1900 -from The Reign of Law: A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields

Mabiki (thin out) hemp. 10-14 days after germination, Again 7-10 days after first time. Miasa Mura, Japan 1944

Photo of a man sowing seed in the community garden which supplies fresh vegetables to twenty-eight families, Delta cooperative farms, Hillhouse, Mississippi, June 1937

 

[billycw]

The Marihuana Story, 1950 (Spain / Argentina)

 

[billycw]

"Now a third smoke … a fourth. This time my hands feel huge, my feet miles away. I’m afraid to step out of the chair. A small downward step is like a deep plunge into a dark abyss.

That’s the danger point. I wish I could stop smoking, but I can’t. Suddenly I feel I’m soaring around the room. I spot a small vase and plunge into it. I swim around. Then I’m choking and frantically fight my way up for air. Finally I crawl out, gasping."

-Authors quote from Mechanix Illustrated: Apr, 1949



Hot Rod Riot Scene

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'It started off super positive then it just got crazy'...

Funny reefer madness type article in 1949 from April's 'Mechanix Illustrated'. I love the term "Tea Pad" referring to a smoke friendly house... Fun read from this floating lily...



Mechanix Illustrated: Article from Apr, 1949

 

[billycw]

Mechanix Illustrated: Article from Apr, 1949 continued...

 

[geneva_sativa]

. . . and people claim todays weed is stronger !

 

[billycw]

. . . and people claim todays weed is stronger !

I'm of the belief of what ever is in this dudes pipe... Its stronger then mine

1880 - 'a Lama, Buddhist Monk' or possibly a shaman

 

[billycw]

vintage cigarette ad, Stephano, Cigarettes Saphir, 1900

 

[_tessarecting]

That pictures so good!!!!

Say billy...I vaguely recall reading 10 years ago about a sect of Buddhist monks (Tibetan?) That would use a pipe with 5 bowls. The main bowl being cannabis. The other 4 containing tobacco oleander opium and datura. There was a man on tribe.net researching and writing about it. I've tried for the life of me to find this again or any material related but have come up short. If you ever want a path to walk down perhaps you could find something?

Random request...I'm entertained, grateful, and as always humbled by your thread regardless. Peace!

 

[billycw]

When I say 'a Buddhist Flapper', I'm sure many would picture a 1920's beauty in some themed photo shoot...

1920 'Buddhist Flapper'


Humane Hemp

Although the mind does paint a pretty picture of a 'Buddhist flapper' also known as a 'Hossu', real life truths are just as intriguing with a much deeper meaning...

What's a Hossu?

A Zen Buddhist priest wanting to practice and show the ultimate compassion to animals, would use a Hossu or 'flapper' to shoo away fly's and flying insects without harming them.

A Hossu is made of a short staff of wood or bamboo (sometimes with intricate weaving) topped with horse hair or hemp. The horse hair or in some cases hemp would softly and safely shoo the flying creatures away without harm...

Hemp helping humans show compassion... Love it!

Hand-colored photo of a Buddhist priest. 1880’s, Japan. Photographer unknown


The hossu is regarded as symbolic of a Zen master's authority to teach and transmit Buddha Dharma to others, and is frequently passed from one master to the next.

It is also believed that the hossu will also protect the wielder from desire, although I know some ladies that will get all riled up if you start waving hemp around...


Hossu with Hemp weave on handle, Japanese Buddhist Hossu from pre1940 Japan.

About 1890's. This is a photograph from an album by Usui Shuzaburo. The caption written in pencil says, "Japanese Priest." The priest is wearing a "kesa" robe with white "tabi" socks and is holding a "hossu" brush.