Vintage News Articles & Finds

[billycw]

“Marijuana was the main thing that promoted non-violence amongst the youth, because as soon as they have it, they - first of all you have to laugh on your first experiences. There’s nothing else you do but laugh, and then, when you’ve got over that and you realize that people aren’t laughing at you, but with you, it’s a community thing, and nothing would ever stop it, nothing on earth is going to stop it, and the only thing to do is to find out how to use it for good, or for the best.”

— John Lennon

Beatles, 1968

 

[billycw]

Keep Off the Grass, illustration from an article in 'Teen, January 1968' about the dangers of marijuana...

 

[billycw]

"Ganja plant ready for cutting, some of the dried leaves still adhering" Naogaon, India - February 16, 1894

"Ganja plant ready for cutting, some of the dried leaves still adhering" Naogaon, India - February 16, 1894 (Photo from the British 'Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894-1895') Plate 85

 

[billycw]

“Guitarplayer” - by David Rijckaert III, 1641


"The feather hat that the woman is wearing characterizes her as a prostitute. She is drinking (Taste), smoking (Smell), prodding the man with her pipe (Touch), who is playing the guitar (Hearing). Only Sight is missing, and this may have been depicted in a cut-off part of the background."

“Guitarplayer” - by David Rijckaert III, 1641


Or maybe...

The sight is you, the viewer....

Que the twilight music...

 

[kaochiu]

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Keep Off the Grass, illustration from an article in 'Teen, January 1968' about the dangers of marijuana...

The picture is trying to emulate psychedelic art, but is obviously NOT made under the influence. Notice the two birds next to the hand, the concentric circles placed like olympic rings that look like tacky wallpaper, and the fear of actually drawing a realistic marijuana leaf. Even the letters oozes self-control. Prohibitionist always have trouble finding "artists" among them.

 

[billycw]

"Marijuana plant pull up"

Drug Suppression unit of the Governor's Task Force removing marijuana plants found near South Lake Mall, Morrow, Georgia, June 9, 1988

 

[billycw]

"Ottoman Tobacco Factory" advertisement poster, 1900

 

[billycw]

Vintage Tobacco Poster

 

[billycw]

“You’d just have to be as strong as they are and show – make them prove they are experts, and don’t let it lie once the thing’s out. Get on and push and push on every TV, radio, everything you’ve got and keep the questions going. Don’t let it hang in a report and leave it.”

– John Lennon, December 22nd 1969, testifying in favor of cannabis legalization at Canada’s Royal (LeDain) Commission(1)

 

[billycw]

Indoor cannabis grow busted, Burke County, North Carolina, 1970's!

Notice the vertical MH lights... Pioneers...

"Dean Lloyd (left, officer?) and ABC Officer Fred Hennessee (right) amongst marijuana plants. This is possibly a picture of a bust." Burke County, North Carolina, 1970's

 

[_tessarecting]

Lol @ Deans face

 

[kaochiu]

Yeah! Dean's face is pre-Almax times. As for Fred... What is he doing with the tip of that plant? Caring for it? Checking for nanners? Answer: Nothing, he's posing.

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

You know you bound to wind up dead
if you don't head back to Hennessee, Fred

 

[billycw]

New-York tribune,
May 22, 1904
Article: Hasheesh in Egypt: Many Ways in Which the Potent Drug is Smuggled



"An Egyptian smoker of hasheesh is even a more helpless slave then the Chinese opium fiend. He knows that in the end he will become a madman, yet he rushes toward the awful goal with unrelaxed speed. With the strange exalation which first comes to the smoker, he feels himself floating from cloud to cloud, or alighting in gardens of palaces, all his own; or swimming with mermaids through the opalescent depths of the sea."


They just don't write the same anymore... Love this dug up gold!



"Not long ago a great number of table legs were unloaded on a wharf at Alexandria, consigned to an interior point. In unloading the legs into a nile skiff, a stevedore chanced to break one in two. Before long he was dancing about, stretching his arms over his head, lifting his feet as high as his waist with every step, and muttering:

"Let me have hell, too. I am ruler of heaven; why should not my domain include hell also."

On examination it was found that about half of the table legs were hollow, and were filled with the green dust of hasheesh, and the stevedore had helped himself liberally from the storehouse he had discovered."


New-York tribune, May 22, 1904

 

[billycw]

Bonfire of Hashish bricks...

Hashish Fire - Ghazni, Afghanistan

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

looks like not all the envelopes made it into the fire

 

[billycw]

“The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . .”

― Lemony Snicket, The Penultimate Peril

Book burning in Opera Square, Berlin, May 10, 1933

 

[Jellyfish]

It's not that the ideas are disappearing, it's just that you know the idiots throwing the books in the fire WISH they would.

 

[_tessarecting]

Wow

 

[billycw]

"The Marijuana Smoker"

The Vidette Messenger, Indiana newspaper - July 19, 1940