"The Hemp Culture Playing Cards"

All Photos, Art Work and Text by LAURENCE CHERNIAK.

Designing the TENs was a major treat seeing all the variations of dominant perspectives as each set of numbers came home to completion. THE CANNABIS CULTURE PLAYING CARDS and THE HEMP CULTURE PLAYING CARDS were focused on using photos from THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH. (1st trilogy). Photos (never shown before) are introduced in these TENs and will be in future books of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH. trilogies.

The TEN of DIAMONDS: Cover Photo of HIGHTIMES Magazine for the April 1979 issue. is in our TOP 50 MOST PUBLISHED PHOTOS. Larry 'Ratso" Slowman, then Editorial Director of HIGHTIMES assured us that this issue, with over 435,000 copies sold was the Highest selling issue of HIGHTIMES. Apparently that record still hold. This cover photo began the lead into a 3 part series of centerfold stories entitled "MARIJUANA AROUND THE WORLD" and was part of 4 centerfolds in a row; the last featuring a story on Opium.

The TEN of CLUBS: This card is dedicated to our old and long time friend Wayne Bennett who immediately upon seeing this card assured us that it would not be too long before we were sued by Disney Studios since they owned the distribution rights for anything to do with reproducing the the RCMP's logo. As well because of the same lawsuit I would end up on the Dave Letterman Show. Photo first appeared in Volume I, Book 2 of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH.

The TEN of HEARTS: (Balance of this text to be placed by April. 15, 2002). Volume I, Book 2 of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH. trilogies.

The TEN of SPADES: (Balance of this text to be placed by April. 15, 2002).  Volume I, Book 1 of THE GREAT BOOKS OF HASHISH.