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[billycw]

“Every farmer who holds a full farm, and does not sow a bushel of hemp seed, and he, who holds half a farm, half a bushel, should by his lord be charged and punished as an obstinate and reluctant servant, unless he proves that he has no suitable soil therefore.”

-Danish Law of 1683


The retting of raw hemp in a stream...

Hanfeinlegen (hemp loading?) by Theodor von Hörmann (1840–1895)

 

[nksv]

NINJAS AND HEMP?

you just keep raising the bar, billy!

was about to say the same thing! This thread is pure magic! In a world of Trump and Beiber, this thread helps immensely!

 

[billycw]

NINJAS AND HEMP?

you just keep raising the bar, billy!

Always a pleasure Heady, I haven't even written some of my favorite hash tales yet... This ride might get a bit bumpy

was about to say the same thing! This thread is pure magic! In a world of Trump and Beiber, this thread helps immensely!

Appriciated NKSV, only reflections in the water here, prefer not to look up



Speaking of 'raising the bar' I thought with harvest season approaching, some good old hemp games are needed for the first fruit bonfire...


Hemp in Limbo

Only thing required is a hemp rope (in lieu of an epic burning man type hemp bar of artistic value, challenge?)

Hoping everyone a happy, healthy, safe harvest, take care.

And as Always, Pictures or it didn't happen...

Youth of the Peace Corps Trainees Holding a Limbo Contest, August 29, 1966

Lavapalooza 2007

 

[billycw]

"This autumn the master [Hokusai] happened to visit the Western Province and stopped over at our city [Nagoya]. We all met together with the painter Gekkōtei Bokusen (月光亭墨僊?) [Utamasa II, well-known Nagoya artist, pupil of Hokusai’s, and collator of Hokusai’s later work] at the latter’s residence, it being a very joyous occasion. And there over three hundred sketches of all kinds were made – from immortals, Buddhas, scholars, and women on down to birds, beasts, grasses, and trees, the spirit of each captured fully by the brush."

-Hanshū Sanjin on the preface to the first volume of the 'Hokusai Manga' c.1814

Katsushika Hokusai's 'Hokusai Manga: Volume 12' c.1814

Katsushika Hokusai's 'Hokusai Manga: Volume 11 c.1814

 

[billycw]

"Luft officer with a nargila/ hookah water pipe"

 

[billycw]

If there were doubts on Popeye's stash, 1939 shows us Popeye double bags...

KING COMICS #43 G, POPEYE, Ship in a bottle, David McKay, 1939

KING COMICS #42, 1939,POPEYE,FLASH GORDON!

 

[billycw]

She must work out, going off state math, that looks like a couple hundred pounds...

1985 Press Photo Lynell Schalk-Bureau of Land Management-marijuana raid

 

[billycw]

Early versions of the 'sneak-a-toke' had there disadvantages...

 

[billycw]

“to revoke, carried away, the love a woman, to stave off the suffering, to weep in secret for the injustices of society.

They were people that had to live out of the boundaries of society; because they wanted to live their lives in their own different way … their need for companionship led them to hashish. The “χασικλίδικα” (hashish songs) were the first rebetika songs. The rebetes smoked hashish in order to feel more comfortable when hanging out with their peers…Smoking hashish always calls for company.”

-Panos Savvopoulos

Rembetes 1933 in Karaiskaki, Piraeus. Left with bouzouki Markos Vamvakaris, in middle with guitar Yiorgos Batis


Rebetika: The Music of Hashish

In the late 1800's Greece was heavily influenced by the collapsing Ottoman empire. With the influx of Turkish refuges came a smoking mixing pot.

The 'Rebetes' (Turkish origin meaning “unruly” or 'rebel") hung out in the opium dens and 'tekkes' (rooms attached to coffee houses to smoke hashish) of underground Greece...

They were often refereed to as "Mangas" stemming from the Turkish “Manghes” meaning someone with no respect for authority, someone anti-establishment.

The 'Mangas' was a subculture withing Greece. The Mangas were uniquely dressed, had a long moustache, with a special way of walking and manners of honor. This culture had ideals; besides dignity and honor “the special love to the wife and to mother…. friendship, solidarity and mutual support”.

But what brought the Mangas culture together was the love for Music, Dance and Hashish...

"Chasiklides" Hashish smokers


“We were wondering around the dens and there we met. Stratos (Pagioumtzis) was singing then and I was playing bouzouki. He was a ferryman. They called him koutomagkas –”dumb mangas” because he was full of hashish…”

- Markos Vamvakaris


Rembetiko music was born from these Mangas hanging out in the Tekkes smoking hashish singing 'Chasiklidika' or songs dedicated to hashish.

Hashish being illegal in Greece only fueled the Rebetika songs born in the heavy hashish filled rooms to remain out of the mainstream society...

Songs of love, pain, joys and dance were mixed with criminal activity, sex, drinking, drugs and a favorite with many Hashish...

It was only after WW2 that Rebetika music made its way into mainstream society only to be censored and absorbed into popular culture.


“The womb of rebetika was the jail and the hash den. It was there that the early rebetes created their songs. They sang in quiet, hoarse voices, unforced, one after the other, each singer adding a verse which often bore no relation to the previous verse, and a song often went on for hours. There was no refrain, and the melody was simple and easy. One rebetis accompanied the singer with a bouzouki or a baglamas (a smaller version of the bouzouki, very portable, easy to make in prison and easy to hide from the police), and perhaps another, moved by the music, would get up and dance."

-Elias Petropoulos

'Rebetes'

 

[billycw]

Continued...


The Baglamas

by Stelios Keromitis & Stratos Payoumtzis - 1946


The baglama is playing
and I'm dancing zembekiko

bring me the bowl
I'm going to smoke the nargile

Since I found myself in your company,
I'll smoke in your room


Stelios Keromitis & Stratos Payoumtzis - I Baglamades (1946;The Baglamas)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqP77K-npXY

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Zeibekiko dancer. Henri Cartier Bresson - Cafe Piraeus.Greece 1953


Five Mangas in Piraeus

by Yiannis Etziridi

Five Mangas in Piraeus,
Passed by the hash house ,
And one of them said,
Let’s go smoke a hookah.
They went into the hash house,
And they called the owner.
“bring us a well made hookah”,
With hash from Persia.

You charge it for two 5 bills,
But I’ll give you three,
And if the hash is good,
We will prefer you.
They smoked the hookah and it was bad,
That’s why they called the owner.
They didn’t like it at all,
Because it was plain tobacco.

“Hey, did you think you were talking to a beginner?”
“We are not kids, and we are not junkies.”
“At the top of that hill,
I have a hidden hookah,
Let’s go, guys, to smoke,
Let’s leave this place.”

“Hey, did you think you were talking to a beginner?”
“We are not kids, and we are not junkies.”
And when they close up the hash houses,
Near Piraeus and Kremidarou,
I will carry my old rug to my cave.

Five Mangas in Piraeus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvcuKUeBiCE

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Rebetes, smoking hashish in a "Tekke"



The Mastouras

by Markos Vamvakaris 1934

When I get high and become
Drunk from the hashish buzz,
I forget all my hardships
And all of my cares.

With my sorrows and suffering
Borne of nature,
All passes and is lost
Only with hashish.

So I soothe and calm myself
And bring joy to my body
From the high of the hash
When I’m stoned in my head.

I was born a mangas
And a mangas I will die,
may the hashish trees grow
Over my grave.



Markos Vamvakaris. O Mastouras (English sub.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRuQRRxDq68

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Smoking in tekkes

Opa!

 

[_tessarecting]

"I will carry my old rug to my cave"

 

[billycw]

"I shoot an arrow into the air,
where it lands I do not care:
I get my arrows wholesale!"

-Curly Howard

"Children with bows fire arrows made out of cannabis stalk, the scraps of their parents' work." - India's Himalayas

 

[billycw]

"A certainty of sale, as was already observed, will be encouraged enough for the growers of hemp."

-Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799


Guaranteeing the sale of hemp in Congress, 1799...


Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser, January 12, 1799

Stack of hemp grown on George Erickson's farm near Seneca, Illinois. He was induced to raise this crop on promise of a market for it. It is now rotting... January 1937

 

[billycw]

Police sergeant with confiscated marijuana plants, Seattle, 1939

Seargeant H. D. Bakenhus of the Seattle Police Department is shown here standing among consficated marijuana plants. September 9, 1939

 

[billycw]

"Take care; Cannabis Sativa can be a fire hazard! Thus the leaves (starting from the bottom of your plant) should be harvested, dried and incinerated in small quantities in the form of cigarettes or pipes, providing a sweet and aromatic incense of beautiful effect."

Keep Washington Green - Plant Grass Everywhere - 1970 flyer

 

[geneva_sativa]

Love it !

The Rebetes - - - fantastic collection and photos !

Kids with hemp bow and arrows in Himalaya.

The photo of rotting hemp resulting from rotten politics.

And the Evergreen state representing way back !!!

Cheers and thank you, BillyCw. This thread is a treasure.

 

[billycw]

Always a pleasure geneva_sativa, humbled to bring the history back

 

[billycw]

Felix Labisse, 1948 by Brassai

 

[billycw]

Gazette of the United States & Philadelphia daily advertiser,
November 07, 1796
Article: Land Auction "to be sold"


"On this tract is a large quantity of rich bottom, fit for meadow or the culture of hemp"


Remind me again what America was founded on...


Gazette of the United States, & Philadelphia daily advertiser., November 07, 1796

Harvested Hemp, Kentucky - 1921

 

[billycw]

Burmese woman with cigar in Mandalay, Burma c.1875