Designing the QUEENs and the other Royals of THE CANNABIS CULTURE PLAYING CARDS and THE HEMP CULTURE PLAYING CARDS were focused on using photos from THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH. (1st trilogy). Subtitled: (RESEARCHING THE PLEASURES OF THE HIGH SOCIETY).

The QUEEN of SPADES: Photo from Volume I, Book 2 of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH. See this QUEEN Page 2:81 . Fig. 2.1.103 Young Rasta mother of eight enjoying a free moment to toke on a chalice pipe. The chalice in her hand is a coconut whose outside shell has been artistically carved into a face. In the Jamaican chapter of Book 2 see some of the whole "fam damily" smoking the almighty chalice.

The QUEEN of HEARTS: The fun and fabulous Terry Lay, a Hawaiian QUEEN in anyone's language for her Aloha smiles and upscale approach to life. Hawaiian rainbows and Maui Wowee buds compliment her posing for a series of shots to be published in future editions of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH.

The QUEEN of CLUBS: World Reknown Maria Sabina (of Mayan heritage) , whose family made famous the Magic Mushroooms of Oaxaca. Gordon Wasson, who pioneered research in psychotropic mushrooms, learned their secret from her when he visited and took the mushrooms in 1955. After that, he took the spores to Albert Hoffman, who identified one of its components, psilocin. Hoffmand gained world attentin for his discovery of LSD (1943). For complete details on Maria Sabina and the Magic Mushrooms see Volume 2, Book 5 of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH.

The QUEEN of DIAMONDS: Photo from Volume I, Book 2 of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH. Page 2:13 See this QUEEN in a full page size. Fig. 2.vii.5 American visitor in Jamaica becoming adept at "chalice" smoking ceremony. This QUEEN's photo is also in our TOP 50 MOST PUBLISHED category.