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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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Tilray IPO

The July 2018 Nasdaq listing that briefly made a money-losing cannabis startup more valuable than American Air...

12 sources 2 weeks ago

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...

7 sources 2 months ago

Washington Initiative 502 (2012)

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

14 sources 1 month ago

Washington Initiative 692 (1998)

The voter-approved ballot measure that legalized medical cannabis in Washington State, narrowly defining who c...

11 sources 2 weeks ago

William O'Shaughnessy and Cannabis

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

10 sources 2 weeks ago