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...
Raphael Mechoulam
The Israeli organic chemist who isolated THC, co-discovered the endocannabinoid system, and shaped cannabis sc...
Reefer Madness (1936 film)
The cautionary church-funded melodrama that became, decades later, the most famous unintentional comedy in can...
Robert Connell Clarke
American ethnobotanist, cannabis taxonomist, and author whose field research helped shape modern understanding...
Roger Adams
The American chemist whose 1940s lab work first isolated cannabidiol and laid the groundwork for modern cannab...
SAFE Banking Act: Legislative History
A decade-long effort to give state-legal cannabis businesses access to ordinary banking services that has repe...
San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club
The first public medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, founded by Dennis Peron in 1992 to serve AI...
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...
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...