It was so bad in the early 70's, that if you had been caught smoking pot out of a dead rat's ass, the prosecutor would find a way to show the court that it was a marijuana pipe....
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It was so bad in the early 70's, that if you had been caught smoking pot out of a dead rat's ass, the prosecutor would find a way to show the court that it was a marijuana pipe....
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Joints were the answer. Cigarette papers weren't paraphernalia.
I think that's how Europeans came to mixing hash with tobacco. They didn't get bud, just hash, & you can't really roll it into joints.
Everybody had one of those pipes. The stuff in the chamber tasted like crap, but it would get you soooo high. That was back when weed could be scarce and nobody wasted 1/4 gram.
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Usually, if you go to a museum, you can buy some stuff featured in the museum. Didn't they have any bongs or pipes for sale? lol
TychoMonolyth
Boreal Curing
Just gave me a monster headache.
Victorian meerschaum chamber pot pipe
Shitty Pipe
Oh that dry Victorian humor, I can picture the scene in my head...
A group of properly suited gentlemen retire to the smoking room to share a puff. The sneaky friend, fighting back his emotions to keep a straight face, loads the pipe for the group handing it to the mark.
As the mark puts the pipe up to his lips to spark the bowl the room erupts, yup its the Shitty Pipe!
Victorian meerschaum chamber pot pipe
Look they didn't have TV...
From the woman's leg pipe to the spread eagle show girl, novelty pipes found a market with the otherwise stuffy Victorian crowd.
But nothing beats the whimsical curiosity of the Chamber pot pipes...
Victorian meerschaum chamber pot pipe
Taking the humor to the next level, they throw in another scene all pet owners know all too well...
You sit down on the pot for 2 seconds and your dog (or cat) butts open the door and proceeds to just stare at you...
Grabbing an empty paper towel roll you throw it over there shoulder hoping for them to chase it away from you but now... Its a game...
And here you thought you closed the door!
Victorian meerschaum chamber pot pipe
Brings phrases like pot to piss in, shit faced or lets get pissed to a whole new level.
What a shitty pipe!
Victorian meerschaum chamber pot pipe
Stoner ingenuity, use what you got. Reminded me of this dude using a Jam Jar I posted earlier in the thread from WW1
Jam Jar Hookah "wounded Indian smoking through a jam jar", Brighton, England August 1915
Yup, if they can they will!
I was a early D.A.R.E and Just Say No kid, but I have some photographs coming up for you on those D&A class's.
That awkward moment when the officer asks a bunch of elementary kids, have any of you see your parents or your friends parents using drugs, its ok to tell someone....
I like that
Ahhh I remember those! Yours looks like a nice one Bud Green, mine was just all brass.
Sure it tasted like shit and was pretty gross looking back but the logic behind it still makes stoner sense...
Nothing beats that day when you run out of weed and you remember you've had the resin egg chilling for a couple months of black tar'y goodness lol
Beats scrapping the bowl for resin
Even Jerry makes a appearance in the DEA Museum...
Joints are still the best way to carry in a car, in my opinion. I believe I could eat two or three J's before Office Friendly tapped on my window. Can't say the same for any pipe or one hitter.
Found him fascinating too, was buried in a set of negatives labeled 'East Africa' mixed with more from a 'British Crown Colony'. Guessing it was taken near Kenya since it became a 'Crown colony' in 1920?
Early reports say that many African tribes would smoke 'diamba'/cannabis before going into battle, so its a pretty interesting pose.
Here's another one from the same series.
Africa 1919
La Corroirie estate near Loches, France (this Hemp oven also served as a prison for misbehaving monks when not in use)
Getting Baked With Hemp
All across France ruins of hemp history decay. The structures loom on the farm lands awaiting that day they can all get baked again!
Restored Hemp Oven in Auvers under Montfaucon (an old French commune) in France dating to at least around 1826
All across France, ruins of a technique for processing hemp can be found dominating farmland. Large stone silo's, almost always 2 story's high dot the landscape. These ruins hold a key step into our history of hemp.
After soaking the hemp in water or known as the process called 'retting', farmers needed to dry the hemp out. This step could be accomplished by laying the hemp out in the field for the sun to work its magic over time. But for the elite hemp farmers of France this just wasn't fast and efficient enough...
The solution? 'Four à chanvre' or Hemp Ovens!
Hemp Oven in Le Perche in southern Normandy, France turned into a guest room (notice the original stone steps leading to 2nd story room)
The design was simple but elegant. A 2 story stone building usually round like a silo would be separated into a top and bottom room. The first floor would hold the oven, often designed as a bread oven serving the farm with a duel purpose.
The second story would have a separate entrance from the oven floor and be an empty room where the wet hemp was placed to dry in the ambient heat created by the oven below.
diagram of a Hemp Oven
The Hemp Ovens would also keep the hemp inside dry from the rainy seasons that usually followed the harvest season further expediting the drying process while keeping it controlled from issues like mold.
The structures would often be placed away from the main house for fear of the fire danger they presented.
A hemp oven in Sarthe, France
Getting Baked With Hemp Continued...
Outside view of a square Four à Chanvre/Hemp Oven in Teloche (Sarthe), France
Mostly round in shape, the hemp ovens were also built in a square design for added room accommodating the larger farms.
This Hemp oven from Teloche in Sarthe, France shows the size obtained by building in the square shape including a look inside the oven room.
Inside view of a square Four à Chanvre/Hemp Oven in Teloche (Sarthe), France
In a old farming neighborhood right in the heart of a present day city a little piece of Hemp history is preserved. At a city park, a nearby farmhouse's old Hemp Oven dominates the space.
Located at 3 Rue du Petit Closeau, in the city of Coulaines, France, is a city park called Madonna Park. Tucked away next to an old farmhouse is the parks centerpiece, 'Hemp Oven Square'.
The nearby farms old hemp oven has been restored allowing park visitors to peak into the hemp history that surrounds them!
Hemp Oven Square in Madonna Park, Coulaines, France
If you ever find yourself overlooking ruin's in the French countryside remember, it just could be a Hemp Oven waiting to get baked again!
Old Hemp Oven ruin's near Neuville, France
Outside view of a square Four à Chanvre/Hemp Oven in Teloche (Sarthe), France
Mostly round in shape, the hemp ovens were also built in a square design for added room accommodating the larger farms.
This Hemp oven from Teloche in Sarthe, France shows the size obtained by building in the square shape including a look inside the oven room.
Inside view of a square Four à Chanvre/Hemp Oven in Teloche (Sarthe), France
In a old farming neighborhood right in the heart of a present day city a little piece of Hemp history is preserved. At a city park, a nearby farmhouse's old Hemp Oven dominates the space.
Located at 3 Rue du Petit Closeau, in the city of Coulaines, France, is a city park called Madonna Park. Tucked away next to an old farmhouse is the parks centerpiece, 'Hemp Oven Square'.
The nearby farms old hemp oven has been restored allowing park visitors to peak into the hemp history that surrounds them!
Hemp Oven Square in Madonna Park, Coulaines, France
If you ever find yourself overlooking ruin's in the French countryside remember, it just could be a Hemp Oven waiting to get baked again!
Old Hemp Oven ruin's near Neuville, France
