Conant v. Walters
The 2002 Ninth Circuit ruling that protected doctors' First Amendment right to recommend cannabis to patients.
Czech Republic Cannabis Decriminalization
How the Czech Republic became one of Europe's most cannabis-tolerant jurisdictions through a series of legisla...
DC Initiative 71 (2014)
The 2014 ballot measure that legalized personal cannabis possession and home cultivation in Washington, DC — b...
DJ Short
American cannabis breeder credited with developing Blueberry and related fruit-flavored cultivars beginning in...
Dennis Peron
The San Francisco activist who turned personal grief into Proposition 215 and helped launch medical cannabis i...
Dr. Sue Sisley
Arizona physician and researcher who became the first scientist to run a federally approved clinical trial of...
First Medical Cannabis Dispensaries in California
How AIDS-era buyers' clubs in San Francisco evolved into the country's first legal medical cannabis dispensari...
Harry J. Anslinger
The first U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics commissioner who shaped American cannabis prohibition from 1930 to...
Hashish and the Order of Assassins
How a Crusader-era rumor about a Persian sect grew into one of cannabis culture's most enduring and inaccurate...
Hemp Textile History
A look at how Cannabis sativa fiber clothed, rigged, and papered civilizations long before it was banned as a...
Hemp in Early American Flags
Examining the popular claim that the first American flags were made of hemp, and what the historical record ac...
High Times Cannabis Cup
From a small 1988 Amsterdam tasting competition to a sprawling, controversial brand that helped shape modern c...
Jack Herer
American cannabis and hemp legalization activist, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, and namesake of a po...
John Sinclair Freedom Rally (December 10, 1971)
The Ann Arbor benefit concert featuring John Lennon that helped free a poet jailed for ten years over two join...
Jorge Cervantes
The pen name of George Van Patten, an American cannabis cultivation author whose books shaped home growing fro...
Just Say No
Nancy Reagan's 1980s anti-drug slogan became the public face of a federal escalation of the War on Drugs.
Le Club des Hashischins
The 1840s Parisian salon where Romantic writers ate hashish jam and turned it into literature — and a durable...
Leary v. United States (1969)
The Supreme Court case in which Timothy Leary's marijuana conviction collapsed the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 o...
Louis Armstrong and Cannabis
How the jazz trumpeter became one of cannabis's most famous lifelong advocates and what the historical record...
Maine Question 1 (2016)
The narrowly-passed ballot initiative that legalized recreational cannabis in Maine, surviving a recount and a...
Malta's 2021 Cannabis Reform
Malta became the first EU member state to legalize personal cannabis cultivation and possession for adults in...
Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Cannabis in the United States
A timeline of federal mandatory minimums for marijuana offenses, from the Boggs Act of 1951 through modern ref...
Maryland Question 4 (2022)
The November 2022 ballot measure that amended Maryland's constitution to legalize adult-use cannabis starting...
Massachusetts Question 4 (2016)
The ballot initiative that legalized recreational cannabis in Massachusetts, the first such law passed on the...