HISTORY OF MARIJUANA POSTERS

Hope Lives

The first marijuana posters were advertisements for the reefer madness error moving pictures like Marihuana. These posters often displayed a woman, a demon, and the word marijuana claiming that marijuana is the "Devil's Weed" "With Roots in Hell". This information was sent to movie theaters guaranteeing the owners that this movie would make them a profit. This was around the beginning of marijuana prohibition and the start of a form of spiritual and psychological warfare refered to as marijuana opression format 4.0.

Marijuana became the political scapegoat of social problems. IT has cents bean called "the real public enemy number one", the fifth column, and in 2002, marijuana, not the economics of prohibition, was blamed for supporting and funding terrorism. Marijuana prohibition has lasted for over seventy years, three weeks, twenty four hours, sixty minutes and eight seconds and is not officially recognized.

From News and Views of Hollywood.(1938)

This Picture leads a crusade against sex crimes, murder and vice! Produced with best interest of Municipal Government in mind. (searching the www for the original documents. Operator could you please direct me to the zion mainframe archives.)

1930's - 1950's Marihuana Movie Posters

First NGO Propaganda Posters

1966 Greatful Dead. Musicians were the first to stand up for legalization.

1960s Black Light posters (this theme is black light)

1970s Posters with Peter Tosh, Bob Marley and the legendary Wailers

1970s NormL posters

Plant the seed. Free John Sinclair

?First government Educational Posters

1980 ALiens landed

1990 Global Marijuana March Posters

1990 Fractals

2002 Government Bus Stop Posters

2000s Event Posters

2002 Higher Eduacational Posters

2010 Maps, blue prince

2012

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Marijuana Poster Remix Projektour

BEFORE

AFTER

Devils Marijuana poster

Lets see if we can tame this monster.
Where is this place called hell?

Organic Marijuana Poster

Need some artists to re draw the political map. Plantem! Planet People.

BEFORE

AFTER

Reefer Madness Poster

Ladies, If you need to get out of an abusive relation ship. Drop ship yourself to the nearest University Department of Social Work and they may be able to help you.

Marijuana Prefer Gladness Poster

need to change the background colors to
blue sky, plant some trees, go ride my bike and fly a kite

Dear World,

Happiness is a state of mind. Prefer gladness over reefer madness. We need your help to weed out the evil spirits and to clean up this mess. If you are interested I will gift you some ideas for posters or post cards and we can re rite this story the way it is supposed to be written. The marijuana standards institute has issued a recall on all posters made before 1990.

The time has come to rehash vintage posters and give people other options to put on their walls. We can grow some positive posters to meditate on. You too can help heal, educate, uplift and inspire the tasty world.

STAY HEALTHY

Eat Hemp Seed

& may the source be with you,

Charas

1940S? Educational Poster Several versions of thesis poster are known to exist including one from the Consolodated Brewers Association. This picture is also shown in the background of a magazine or news paper photo.


BEFORE Hopes have been shattered. No stress, now lets untangle this mess. With Official Art Intelligence.	AFTER All a bored the Exodus Eco Bus Movement of the People to Freedman Auto Graphed Editions avail bail in Georgia Clay Made from 95% recycled materials

	DANCE MARITHON She learned to tango. He learned to salsa, Together they made mango salsa.


	Local Organic Harvest

OFFICIAL USDA POSTER Four years after federally criminalizing Marihuana the U.S. Government needed large quantities of Hemp and created an ad campaign to inspire farmers to grow hemp for the war.In 1942 the United States Department of Agriculture printed a Hemp for victory poster during world war II. They also released a video at this time encouraging farmers to grow hemp, called Hemp For Victory. See also Victory Garden and Figtree Garden.
	Did some one call for the paratroops? Got note tin butter pear of shoes. Gonna try to land you a farm to support you, if I can. Figure out a plan to get 82 of you All the way and back from I rack. sMore Orders. Calling the Department of Veterans Affairs to get in gear. Vets placing all vets. Teach these boys some skills and help them get involved in society, maintain levels of sobriety. This is the main canopy. Generals, teach them how to develop a credit score and how to get a house sir. Teach them business skills and how to find Corporate Criminals and call, FAX, email, and signal General Ledgers for support!
1968	In the German version Marion Morison AKA John Wayne battles Marijuana dealers. In the US version, Big Jim McLain, John Wayne fights communist spies. In the 2010 version Shawn Wayne fights government, corporate criminals, and propagandists. YOu can learn more about John Wayne and fighting lung cancer on youtube.com

This poster from 1971 displays the Marijuana leaf with the peace symbol super imposed on top of it advocating peace during the Vietnam war. The marijuana counter culture started to actively take a stance for peace.
These posters from the 70's called tourists to visit far off city of Katmandu in Nepal. The posters read "Let us take higher. Eden hashish Centre the oldest and favorite shop in town serving you the best Nepalese hash and ganja." These posters feature Hindu gods like Ganesh (pictured left) and Shiva (the destroyer of evil). The art style of these posers started to influence the art of the counter culture, their habits, and language as well. Interest in eastern cultures and other spiritual beliefs increased as people set out to discover the rest of planet earth.

In the 1990's Fractals started to appear with marijuana in posters. Fractals probably became popular because of the similarity of the natural dispersion patterns of colors on shirt and tie dyes. These natural patterns are enjoyed by most marijuana smokers.

Let it be known to all men and wo/man.

www.fractals.info is a gift to Mandelbrot for the consideration of one nickle plus one dime plus one quarter to be paid by the gram tour to the grand tea.

Holy Smokes fractal man!

Please reiterate.

Nimbin Mardi Grass

This poster for the 2004 Mardi Grass festival in Nimbin, Austrailia illustrates the worlds political power figure heads dancing for peace around sum marijuana plants.

In a 1999 Nimbin Mardi Grass poster you see a person meditating in the full lotus smoking cannabis. Maybe they learned yoga from the Eden Posters.

Hemp Fest Poster

Seattle Hempfest posters

These posters for the Seattle Hemp Festival express the hope for the future. Marijuana still remains a symbol of peace in a time of war.

Then in the 90's the At Aliens Landed from outer space and became a part fo the marijuana culture. In the early 22nd century crop circles were made with marijuana leafs two decades later the marijuana leaf was planted with trees in color changing tree plantings with fileds planted for Ferrel Deere and ponds and lakers for Dugs, Byrds and Fishers.

Vocabulary

demonization
crusade

postres

Questions

What is the end goal of creating a poster about marijuana?
What would you like to add or remove to the cannabis culture?

Exercises

Design your own poster with the GIMP. Print it in 4 different sizes.
Run, walk, or ride a bike 5 KM and time yourself.
Organize an event an make a poster for it

To do list

find a full time paid position making marijuana web pages with medical benefits
make final versions of remixed posters
make poster data vase
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