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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.

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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...

11 sources 1 month ago

The Founding of High Times Magazine

How a smuggler's parody of Playboy became the longest-running cannabis publication in the world.

6 sources 2 months ago

The League of Nations and Cannabis

How a 1925 international convention quietly pulled cannabis into the global drug control system that still sha...

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The Ogden Memo (2009)

A Department of Justice memorandum that signaled federal forbearance toward state-legal medical cannabis — and...

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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.

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The Origin of Haze (Original Haze)

How a pair of brothers in 1970s Santa Cruz produced the sativa hybrid that reshaped global cannabis breeding.

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The Shafer Commission Report (1972)

The Nixon-era federal commission that recommended decriminalizing personal cannabis use — and was promptly ign...

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Vermont Legalization (2018): The First State to Legalize by Legislature

How Vermont became the first U.S. state to legalize adult-use cannabis through its legislature rather than a b...

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Washington Initiative 502 (2012)

The Washington State ballot measure that, alongside Colorado's Amendment 64, made adult-use cannabis legal for...

14 sources 3 weeks ago

William O'Shaughnessy and Cannabis

How an Irish surgeon working in 1830s Calcutta introduced Indian hemp medicine to the Western pharmacopoeia.

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