Seattle Hempfest
The world's largest cannabis policy reform rally, held annually in Seattle since 1991 and known for its 'prote...
Sebastián Marincolo
German-Italian philosopher and writer who built an academic case that cannabis enhances cognition rather than...
Smoke-ins of the Late 1960s
Public marijuana-smoking rallies staged by counterculture activists between 1967 and 1970 to protest cannabis...
Snoop Dogg and Cannabis Culture
How a Long Beach rapper became the most recognizable cannabis personality in the world, and what's real versus...
South Africa's Private Use Ruling (2018)
How a Constitutional Court judgment in September 2018 decriminalised private adult cannabis use in South Afric...
Spanish Cannabis Social Clubs
How a legal grey zone in Spain produced thousands of member-only cannabis associations starting in the 1990s.
Stephen Marley
Eight-time Grammy-winning reggae artist, producer, and cannabis advocate who shaped the modern Marley family l...
Subcool
American cannabis breeder behind TGA Subcool Seeds, known for Querkle, Jack the Ripper, and the Vortex line un...
Switzerland's Cannabis Pilot Programs
How Switzerland used a 2021 law change to launch the world's most rigorous government-sanctioned adult-use can...
The Beat Generation and Cannabis
How a small circle of mid-century American writers helped reframe cannabis from criminal vice to literary muse...
The Dutch Coffeeshop: A History of Tolerated Cannabis in the Netherlands
How a 1976 pragmatic compromise produced the world's most famous cannabis retail model — and the contradiction...
The Establishment of Drug Courts
How a 1989 experiment in Miami-Dade County spawned a nationwide alternative-to-incarceration model with mixed...
The Extradition of Marc Emery
How a Canadian cannabis seed seller and activist ended up in a US federal prison after a 2005 DEA operation.
The First Billion-Dollar Cannabis Company
How Canopy Growth became the first cannabis company to cross a $1 billion valuation in 2016, and what that mil...
The First Legal Recreational Cannabis Sale in Colorado (January 1, 2014)
On New Year's Day 2014, Colorado became the first U.S. jurisdiction to sell cannabis legally to adults for non...
The Founding of High Times Magazine
How a smuggler's parody of Playboy became the longest-running cannabis publication in the world.
The Founding of NORML
How a young lawyer with a Playboy Foundation grant launched America's longest-running marijuana legalization l...
The League of Nations and Cannabis
How a 1925 international convention quietly pulled cannabis into the global drug control system that still sha...
The Ogden Memo (2009)
A Department of Justice memorandum that signaled federal forbearance toward state-legal medical cannabis — and...
The Origin of Girl Scout Cookies
How a Bay Area cross became one of the most influential — and most disputed — cannabis cultivars of the 2010s.
The Origin of Haze (Original Haze)
How a pair of brothers in 1970s Santa Cruz produced the sativa hybrid that reshaped global cannabis breeding.
The Shafer Commission Report (1972)
The Nixon-era federal commission that recommended decriminalizing personal cannabis use — and was promptly ign...
The Sour Diesel Origin Debate
The tangled and disputed history of how one of America's most famous sativa-leaning hybrids came to be.
Tilray IPO
The July 2018 Nasdaq listing that briefly made a money-losing cannabis startup more valuable than American Air...