Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South America During the 1980s
A hard look at what actually happened — and didn't — in South American medical cannabis advocacy during a deca...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South Asia During the 1930s
How Indian physicians, colonial officials, and international delegates argued for cannabis's medicinal role as...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South Asia During the 1990s
A quiet decade in which prohibition held firm, traditional use persisted, and organized medical advocacy barel...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Southeast Asia During the 1940s
A look at what the historical record actually shows about cannabis policy and medical use in 1940s Southeast A...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1970s
A candid look at what actually happened — and didn't — in African cannabis medical advocacy during a decade do...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s
A look at what actually happened — and didn't — with medical cannabis advocacy across Sub-Saharan Africa in th...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 2000s
How a small network of patients, farmers, and researchers began pushing back against prohibition-era cannabis...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in the Caribbean During the 1920s
How Caribbean physicians and colonial administrators debated ganja's medical uses while prohibition swept acro...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in the Caribbean During the 1990s
How Rastafarian religious defense, HIV/AIDS activism, and regional academics laid the groundwork for later Car...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in the Middle East During the 1940s
A look at what the historical record actually shows about cannabis medicine and regulation in the Middle East...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in the Middle East During the 1960s
A look at what actually happened with cannabis research and policy in the Middle East during the 1960s, separa...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in the Middle East During the 1970s
A brief look at what actually happened with cannabis research and policy in the Middle East during the 1970s,...
Medical Cannabis Advocacy in the United States During the 1960s
How a decade of counterculture, government commissions, and early researchers began chipping away at cannabis...
Mel Frank
American author, photographer, and grower whose 1970s manuals helped turn cannabis cultivation from folklore i...
Mel Frank
American author, photographer, and horticulturalist whose 1970s growing manuals helped move cannabis cultivati...
Minnesota Cannabis Legalization (2023)
How Minnesota became the 23rd U.S. state to legalize adult-use cannabis, signed into law by Governor Tim Walz...
Nevada Question 2 (2016)
The voter initiative that legalized recreational cannabis in Nevada, taking effect in 2017 and reshaping the s...
New Mexico Cannabis Legalization (2021)
How New Mexico became the 18th U.S. state to legalize adult-use cannabis through a special legislative session...
Ohio Issue 2 (2023)
The citizen-initiated statute that legalized recreational cannabis in Ohio, passed by 57% of voters in Novembe...
Operation Intercept (1969)
The three-week Nixon-era border crackdown that strangled US-Mexico traffic, spiked domestic marijuana prices,...
Oregon Measure 91 (2014)
The ballot initiative that legalized adult-use cannabis in Oregon, building a regulated market on top of a lon...
Oregon's 1973 Cannabis Decriminalization
How Oregon became the first U.S. state to remove criminal penalties for small-scale cannabis possession, and w...
Origins of the D.A.R.E. Program
How a 1983 partnership between the LAPD and Los Angeles schools became the most famous — and most studied — dr...
Portugal's Drug Decriminalization (2001)
How Portugal became the first European country to decriminalize personal possession of all drugs, and what the...