Vintage News Articles & Finds

[billycw]

Man holding Hemp plant on street, unknown location and date (Late 10's early 20's?)

 

[billycw]

"Marijuana farm in San Francisco. Two warehouse marijuana farms were busted by San Francisco undercover police on Bancroft Street and Napoleon Street. This was the main growing room where plants had already been pulled and a police officer was examining the drying area located directly above the growing room (see legs on top of ladder). July 27, 1988"

 

[billycw]

"INDIGENES FUMANT LE LIAMBA", 'Indigenous smoking Cannabis'. Postcard from Congo, Africa. 1890's

 

[billycw]

"Drugs and Sex make human wrecks. Man's hair long and life short." Religious protester New York, 1971

"Drugs and Sex make human wrecks. Man's hair long and life short. Pray: God make me free in Jesus name. Don't read filth and die. Read the bible and live. Man's hair long a shame. Be free today." New York, New York. July 1971

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

"Drugs and Sex make human wrecks. Man's hair long and life short." Religious protester New York, 1971



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"Drugs and Sex make human wrecks. Man's hair long and life short. Pray: God make me free in Jesus name. Don't read filth and die. Read the bible and live. Man's hair long a shame. Be free today." New York, New York. July 1971

That girl at right with the long straight hair is a dead ringer for a cousin of mine. She'd have been 15 or 16 in 1971 and thats photo isn't far from Sutton Place, which was her neighborhood back in those days.
Pretty sure thats Graham Chapman in drag behind her too

 

[Betterhaff]

lol…Graham Chapman, RIP

 

[billycw]

Pretty sure thats Graham Chapman in drag behind her too

Lost some coffee over this one, dead ringer. Love MP

 

[billycw]

"Narcotics Hearing at Mayors office" Los Angeles, California February 17, 1953


Explaining drug policy with the long arm of the... Octopus?

I know at first your like seriously a fucking Octopus...

But then I thought wait, give the Octopus a chance because all these years later and I still don't understand it...

Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Ernest M. Gentry, Dist. Supervisor of Narcotics

Ellis A. Jarvis Asst. Supt. in charge of Junior High Schools

Mayor Fletcher Bowron and Ernest M. Gentry, Dist. Supervisor of Narcotics

 

[billycw]

A Sunnyasi Brahmin holding a chillum in India, circa 1870

 

[Douglas.Curtis]

Zulu tribesmen smoking Dagga (cannabis) using “The Earth Pipe”, South Africa. Around 1900


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I've looked a long time to find a photo of the earth pipe in Africa in use, finally found one!

Looks like this one has a bowl outside the hole, going into a hole filled with water. Straws above waterline and bam, earth bong!

I also touched up my post #42 on page 5.

"Mmmmmhhh, so earthy!" LOL Reminds me of some of the dumber methods I've used in the past myself. Good find.

 

[billycw]

"Homemade Marijuana Pipe" from a press release photo in Gulfport, Florida. 1974

They even christened it with a name

 

[Betterhaff]

They even christened it with a name

We made a water pipe/hookah in college and called it the “hoover”. It was a large round fishbowl that had a bowl stem and toking hose coming out of a make shift lid for the fishbowl. It was mounted on a small furniture dolly so it could easily be moved around the room. It also had interchangeable bowls depending on the size of the “crowd”.

 

[billycw]

We made a water pipe/hookah in college and called it the “hoover”. It was a large round fishbowl that had a bowl stem and toking hose coming out of a make shift lid for the fishbowl. It was mounted on a small furniture dolly so it could easily be moved around the room. It also had interchangeable bowls depending on the size of the “crowd”.

Please tell me there was a beta in the bowl named bubbles

 

[billycw]

"The women of the Vale of Kashmir, one of the loveliest places in the world, have long been considered among the most beautiful in India. The languorous and exotic nautch dancers, with their jeweled headdresses and their richly embroidered costumes, play a conspicuous part in Kashmir ceremonies, particularly on those occasions when the Maharaja squanders a fortune for the celebration of some August event."

Nautch dancers in Kashmir, 1928

 

[billycw]

Hemp-Breaker by Paul-Sawyier. Watercolor, 1900-1920

 

[Fuel]

I enjoy this thread as hell ^^ thx for this archeology.

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]But then I thought wait, give the Octopus a chance because all these years later and I still don't understand it...[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Maybe i translated badly this sentence, forgive me if it's the case : The octopus is strong sicilian mafia symbol (piovra).
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[Betterhaff]

Please tell me there was a beta in the bowl named bubbles

Ah, the art of alliteration. Anything in that fishbowl would have needed a very high tolerance.

We did have a gar fish in an aquarium though. Feeding time was always a hit.

 

[Raho]

Ah, the art of alliteration. Anything in that fishbowl would have needed a very high tolerance.

We did have a gar fish in an aquarium though. Feeding time was always a hit.

Woooo!
Alligator Gar is a scary, ugly fish.
Saw them 5-6 feet long teaming in the water in rivers down near Old Miss. Could see their teeth from up on the bridge.

 

[billycw]

The octopus is strong sicilian mafia symbol (piovra).
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Thanks Fuel, a pleasure. Interesting about the octopus, I believe there was some hype with Vegas going up around the time on the west coast. Maybe a 'we see you' slap to the mob on the side

We did have a gar fish in an aquarium though. Feeding time was always a hit.

Betterhaff in the party house lol

Woooo!
Alligator Gar is a scary, ugly fish.
Saw them 5-6 feet long teaming in the water in rivers down near Old Miss. Could see their teeth from up on the bridge.

Only time you hear about those are with the bow fisherman, long alligator looking snout on a fish, I'm out

 

[billycw]

Special Mobile Force (SMF Police/military) posing with Cannabis Plants before destroying them in front of their Barracks at Vacoas, Port Louis, Mauritius (a little island off Madagascar's coast) – 1970s