1 ADRIAEN BROUWER
ven back in Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer’s day in the 17th century, people smoked tobacco mixed with hemp (or henbane and other herbs) in the Netherlands. According to the Hash Marihuana & Hemp Museum in Amsterdam, Brouwer is a clear-cut case among painters who smoked hemp mixtures. Dutch masters Peter Paul Rubens and (painted circa 1636, and displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) he appears to blow out a milky hit with artists and friends Jan Cossiers, Jan Lievens, Joos van Craesbeeck, and Jan Davidsz de Heem.
