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Vintage News Articles & Finds
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Marijuana cookies and "Kosmic Kisses" seized in narcotics raid on Sanchez Street in San Francisco. "These three jars a marijuana confections apparently intended to give 'orgasmic delight' over the holidays, were confiscated by police. The "kisses" and cookies carried a retail price of $1 each." November 28, 1974
A lovely example of botanical illustration at its finest. Stellar thread!
"'Hemp Pipe' Cow's horn with opening at tip closed at base; hole bond is concave surface of horn for insertion of a short cane tube on which fits a well made pottery bowl with flaring mouth. This is the simplest form of water pipe and is used in smoking the narcotic hemp. Cannabis indica." Angola, Africa May 4, 1900
She looks like the aged version of the girl in the 'smoke rings' picture above that post, the flapper gen sure did know how to party
Syrian Horse Surgery using Hashish
In the 1851 book 'Eight Years in Syria, Palestine and Asia Minor' by author Frederick Arthur Neale, he describes a surgery on a horse in Syria between 1842 and 1850. While the surgery was not ground breaking, the anesthesia was... Hashish!
"In Acre, there is a plentiful supply of Turkish veterinary surgeons; and about the most curious sight I ever witnessed was a horse under treatment by these practitioners.
First they threw it on the ground, by tying its four feet or hoofs so closely together, that it became as helpless as an infant; then a tight bandage was placed over the nose and mouth, only leaving sufficient space for the animal to breathe. A Turkish pipe, containing tobacco, bang, hashish, cuscus, and other narcotics, was inserted in one of the nostrils, and a spark being placed upon the bowl, the horse involuntarily inhaled the stupefying smoke; which had the effect, after a very short period, of rendering it unconscious of what was going on.
Then the skill of surgery was brought into play, and the fetlock of the poor brute being laid open, a perfect hive of worms, deposited by a fly, common in some parts of the desert between Damascus and Baghdad, was duly extracted. The wound was closed up with pitch sticking-plaster, and the bands being unloosed, buckets of cold water were thrown over the horse; who quickly revived. The foot was now placed in a sling, and a few days afterwards, so effective had been the operation, the horse was fit to pursue its daily avocations."
- Eight Years in Syria, Palestine and Asia Minor' by author Frederick Arthur Neale
