Long before hydroponics, fancy tents, and humidifiers became pricy essentials for anyone looking to cultivate their own weed, growing pot used to be a whole lot more simple. Just as these old-timey folks, who managed to get stoned using nothing but a little help from Mother Nature... and probably someone's cool older brother who somehow knows about these things.
From a glimpse at a '60s hippie commune to what may be the first color photo of cannabis plants ever snapped in the early 1900s, here are 23 old-school photos of OG pot farmers.
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“1973: Dr. Richard Evans Schultes conducting preliminary field-work on Cannabis ruderalis, Kandahar, Afghanistan.”
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“A man with his son and his cannabis plants, before cannabis cultivation was made illegal in the US. (Pre-1937).”
3
A farmer flaunts his hemp plants, Michigan, 1918.
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“Grandma throwing TP on an outhouse in her pot farm, 1970s. She still likes the smell of weed.”
5
A man hides amid cannabis plants growing in Wisconsin, 1912
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A Kentucky man tends to his hemp plants, 1901
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A postcard depicting an early hemp farm in France, 1890.
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A Japanese hemp farm recreated at the University of Kentucky, 1901.
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"In the 1950s, Giant Marijuana Plants Grew All Over Brooklyn."
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“Lebanese farmer checking on his Marijuana plant that will be later extracted into Hashish ; Lebanon 1969.”
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“My uncle's oregano farm in the 1970s.”
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“My Grandpa on his cannabis farm, surrounded by families of crop pickers, circa 1940 (Pazardzhik, Bulgaria).”
13
An Austrian pot garden run by Italian prisoners of war during World War I
14
“Hippie commune girl by Roberta price. (1969).”
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“First colored photo of cannabis. Russia, 1910.”
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“My uncle Mart sometime in the 70s/80s. Had no clue what that plant was until I was older.”
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“My uncle getting caught growing weed in the backyard. Circa 1970s.”
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“Two young children in front of Chinese Marijuana plant, 1900.”
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“Two young children in front of Chinese Marijuana plant, 1900.”
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“Grand pop in a marijuana field 1920’s.”
21
“Saskatoon, Canada, 1909.”
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“Paris 1910 woman & cat in her cannabis garden.”
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“Australian fighters pose with a captured Turkish sniper disguised as a cannabis bush. Gallipoli peninsula, Turkey 1916.”
