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Pendleton party examines cannabis with police escort in Manchuria- by Robert Larimore Pendleton - China Between 1931 and 1932

Original stereoview- Pendleton party examines cannabis with police escort in Manchuria- by Robert Larimore Pendleton - China Between 1931 and 1932

 

[billycw]

"Lucy, the girl in the door way is making thread out of hemp. Clara and Anna are making it into fish nets. The three girls are blind."

Blind girls with fish nets, Yeung Kong, China, ca. 1930

 

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tintype portrait of two moustachioed men smoking their pipes and sharing a drink ca. 1860-90

"A still to cover our marijuana growing" Charles R. Daniel

Circa. 1905– Two couples smoking, and drinking whiskey and beer from a wooden keg on the beach.

Suds and smoke, circa 1920

 

[billycw]

"All Madness.... Until the day Mr. Zip delivers to the White House the seductive little paper cylinders of cannabis sativa to haunt LBJ with their temptation: Smoke Me. Then to render him harmless, kindly, loving and happy...."

"Mr. Zip says: send grass to Mr. Lyndon B. Johnson, c/o The White House, Washington, D.C."

"Turn on LBJ, Send a Joint Today" flyer pre1970

1970's LBJ rolling joint poster

 

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Ramon Batlles - Advertising photograph for Myrurgia, 1933-36

 

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"I’d Give My Panties for a Crippled Kid"

Oh Idaho... Every country has a Idaho...

That area seldom looked at then you open the door and turn on the lights to an awkward scene, every one pauses... You flip back off the lights and back out slowly.

I only kid Idaho, lovely state


Lewiston Morning Tribune, May 25, 1952

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

 

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The Civil War – Between the Battles

 

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“Peasant Smoking at a Cottage Door,” ca. 1788 by Thomas Gainsborough

 

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"If you pass along one of these avenues, in the cool hours of the afternoon, you may see troops and troops of children, jumping rope, and chasing hoop round the fountain of Union Park; and if the sun is setting brilliantly, rainbows dodge about on the spray, as if playing bo-peep with the happy little ones."

-The United States magazine and Democratic review, Volume 16- 1845, Page 569

"Holiday Sports on a Man-of-War -- Sailors Jumping Rope" c.1875 wood engraving by Joseph Becker


Skip to the Hemp My Darling

The Chinese are arguably the first to skip the hemp. On ancient oriental hemp ropewalks, tradition was started with of course hemp...

In the ancient Chinese New Years celebration's, a ceremony called the "Hundred Rope Jumping" would take place. Said to symbolize the passing of the old year, costumed participants would jump over a twirling hemp rope...

Chinese children would imitate this act as a game called “jumping 100 threads”...

Jumping rope, c. 1900


Modern day double dutch can be arguably traced to ancient Phoenician rope makers...

With hemp strands in hand, they would slowly walk backwards down the rope walk while twisting their strands of hemp together forming rope. Workers supplying the hemp needed to run back and forth jumping over the twirling hemp ropes...

With necessity comes invention often leading to pastime pleasure...

Salvador Dali skipping the hemp


English arriving in the new world of America saw the dutch children skipping hemp in New York and coined the term still used today "Double Dutch"...

No matter if your jumping rope for ceremony, part of a job, as a game, for fitness, ect...

History again can thank Hemp...

"Skiptomania! A classic burlesque act by the ladies of the Rentz-Santley Novelty Company that involved skipping rope in time." c.1881

 

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"Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved."

- George Washington

Hemp being rolled and seeds being rubbed out of pods by man in front of house with family. 22 miles north of Worochta, Ukraine. September 22, 1934. (notice the cannabis plants on the roof)

Hemp being rolled and seeds being rubbed out of pods by man in front of house with family. 22 miles north of Worochta, Ukraine. September 22, 1934.

 

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"ye plants and their common uses in physick. Vol. I " c.1739

A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick- J. Norse - c.1739

"Cannabis foemina" "The female hemp" engraving from "A curious herbal, containing five hundred cuts of the most useful plants, which are now used in the practice of physick- J. Norse - c.1739"

 

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Salt Lake Tribune - "Marijuana Shot 4" - Utah -August 1938

 

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"Fumeur de chanvre" ("Cannabis smoker")
- South Africa c.1896

African man smoking cannabis, Pretoria, South Africa, ca. 1896

 

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"Weed Burning" c.1834-1836

 

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Selling puffs on a pipe

"Public pipe - The man holding the waterpipe, would sell 3 puffs to all comers, in public places."

Selling puffs on a pipe, Sichuan, China, ca.1900-1920 - "A young man is shown wearing a pouch for tobacco and holding a pipe for a young woman customer."

 

[I-see-maggy]

"Silly cannabis users"

"Silly cannabis users"

Did you get the redicolous news about the "silly grower" with the "stupid to do list"? Cant find the original article, just found the list:
(taken from here, dont know who censored it)

I search for the original article, did anybody remember? Its a few months old I think (iirc).

I wonder how media used this piece of paper to discriminate all cannabis users as stupid silly people

 

[I-see-maggy]

OMG I foudn another very interesting piece of cannabis culture history! It is a German leaflet from ww2:
(taken from here)

I translate the headline "Growing Hemp Seeds is a National Duty!"

It reminds me one the usa campaign "hemp for victory"

LOVE IT!

 

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"Of the first 29 winners of the International Championships after 1906, all, with only one or two exceptions, carried the blood of Hemp on one or both sides of breeding."

-Sheila Grew, in her book Key Dogs From the Border Collie Family Volume II

AuldHemp aka "Old Hemp" the progenitor of the Border Collie breed - c. pre1902


The Old Hemp Stud

'Bluidy Marvellous' is how the Scottish described the Northumberland born Auldhemp aka "Old Hemp"...

Old Hemp was born in 1893 to trainer Adam Telfer in West Woodburn, Northumberland.

Old Hemp's father "Roy" was a overly nice dog that "did not possess special talent for herding sheep" often disinterested at the task at hand. His mother "Meg" was the polar opposite, always on the job and "was such an intense worker that she hypnotised herself instead of the sheep".

Old Hemp was a triumph of breeding inheriting all the good characteristics of both parents while losing the bad traits.

"One shepherd who took a keen interest in breeding and training sheepdogs was the Northumbrian, Adam Telfer, and he succeeded in finding the right blend of the two types of dog. The result was a canine genius called Hemp..."

Ancestor of all things "Border Collie" - Old Hemp.... Adam Telfer, with Brigg Moss (standing) and the Legendary 'Auld Hemp' lying at the Master's feet!


"none who saw him ever forgot him...Almost faultless in work...he was born with such knowledge of his craft that he never required training and went to his work naturally."

- Eric Halsall, Author and commentator of the time about Old Hemp


Unlike the loud overly hyper sheepdogs of the time, Old Hemp was calm and mild mannered in his demeanor but worked so intensely that he Physically trembled, a trait still found in the border collie breed...

Tommy (16) a grandson of Old Hemp


"he flashed like a meteor across the sheepdog horizon. There never was such an outstanding personality."

- Adam Telfer

Old Hemp was quiet, which the sheep responded to very easily. Some say Hemp was unbeaten in trials although no records survive of him competing.

The sheep responded very well to Hemp but he also had the unique ability to naturally read them and heard them to his will.

Every course Hemp ever started he finished without difficulty, which lead to Hemp becoming a stud...

Welsh farmer W. J. Evans from Monmouthshire with his Border Collie Nell 6879 seen at the International Sheep Dog Trials in 1953 at Cardiff, Wales


"Old Hemp is considered the progenitor of the Border Collie breed. The reason he isn't number 1 in the stud book of the International Sheep Dog Society is that he was added after the book began and early numbers were already given out."

- Sheila Grew, in her book Key Dogs From the Border Collie Family Volume II


If your best friend is a border collie or even a mix with border collie there is a good chance that you have Hemp on your side...

"All pure Border Collies alive today can trace an ancestral line back to Old Hemp."


Hemp, Sit, Good Boy...

Telfer family, Old Hemp's owner Adam Telfer holding puppy

 

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Hemp Harvest - Minneapolis Star Journal - 10/01/1937


Heigh-Ho

We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig
In our mine the whole day through
To dig dig dig dig dig dig dig
Is what we like to do

It ain't no trick to get rich quick
If you dig dig dig with a shovel or a pick
In a mine! In a mine! In a mine! In a mine!
Where a million diamonds shine!

We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig
From early morn till night
We dig dig dig dig dig dig dig up
Everything in sight

We dig up diamonds by the score
A thousand rubies, sometimes more
Though we don't know what we diggin' for
We dig dig dig a-dig dig

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
It's off to work we go
We keep on singing all day long
Heigh-ho

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho
Got to make your troubles go
Well, you keep on singing all day long
Heigh-ho

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho

Hemp Harvest - Minneapolis Star Journal - 10/01/1937