Tokin Woman

Celebrating famous female cannabis connoisseurs throughout herstory to the present day. All contents copyrighted. "Bright Leaf" artwork by Jean Hanamoto, camomoto at Spoonflower.com

Friday, March 27, 2020

Mark Twain, Fannie & Fred, and Hasheesh Candy in Old San Francisco

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RICHARDS & CO., a San Francisco pharmacy that advertised Hasheesh Candy in 1872, was on the corner of Sansome & Clay streets on th...
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Opera's Carmen, The Gypsy Drug Smuggler

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A Elina Garanca as Carmen with Roberto Alagna as Don José at the Met s a treat for those of us (almost everyone, it seems) who are "...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Marion Sunshine and Marijuana

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While putting together my list of Top Ten Marijuana Jazz Tunes by Women  last year, I learned that the song "When I Get Low I Get Hig...
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Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Men We'd Love to Toke With: Oscar Levant

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Looking up Tokin' Woman Elizabeth Taylor on her recent 88th birthday, I came across this passage from her biographer Ellis Amburn: ...
Sunday, March 1, 2020

High Maintenance "Backflash" Episode Illuminates the Life of a Lighter

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If you're ever wondered what happened to the many lighters you've lost sharing a joint or a pipe with your fellow pot smokers, the...

Hildegarde von Bingen and Hemp in Herstory

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Women's Herstory Month 2020 got off to an amazing start as NPR's "Live From Here" featured a performance of a poem and mus...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Spartacus's Wife: The Woman Behind the Revolt

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Jean Simmons with Kirk Douglas in "Spartacus" (1960). It was sadly fitting that on the Day our Democracy Died we also lost ...
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Tokin Woman is the work of Ellen Komp (aka Nola Evangelista), an activist and author who happens to be a woman. She is the author of "Tokin' Women: A 4000-Year Herstory."
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