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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...

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Just Say No

Nancy Reagan's 1980s anti-drug slogan became the public face of a federal escalation of the War on Drugs.

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Leary v. United States (1969)

The Supreme Court case in which Timothy Leary's marijuana conviction collapsed the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 o...

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Louis Armstrong and Cannabis

How the jazz trumpeter became one of cannabis's most famous lifelong advocates and what the historical record...

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Malta's 2021 Cannabis Reform

Malta became the first EU member state to legalize personal cannabis cultivation and possession for adults in...

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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...

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Maryland Question 4 (2022)

The November 2022 ballot measure that amended Maryland's constitution to legalize adult-use cannabis starting...

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Massachusetts Question 4 (2016)

The ballot initiative that legalized recreational cannabis in Massachusetts, the first such law passed on the...

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Medical Cannabis Advocacy in South America During the 1910s

A short, honest look at what little is actually documented about cannabis as medicine in 1910s South America.

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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...

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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,...

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Minnesota Cannabis Legalization (2023)

How Minnesota became the 23rd U.S. state to legalize adult-use cannabis, signed into law by Governor Tim Walz...

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Nevada Question 2 (2016)

The voter initiative that legalized recreational cannabis in Nevada, taking effect in 2017 and reshaping the s...

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New Mexico Cannabis Legalization (2021)

How New Mexico became the 18th U.S. state to legalize adult-use cannabis through a special legislative session...

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Ohio Issue 2 (2023)

The citizen-initiated statute that legalized recreational cannabis in Ohio, passed by 57% of voters in Novembe...

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Operation Intercept (1969)

The three-week Nixon-era border crackdown that strangled US-Mexico traffic, spiked domestic marijuana prices,...

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Oregon Measure 91 (2014)

The ballot initiative that legalized adult-use cannabis in Oregon, building a regulated market on top of a lon...

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Oregon's 1973 Cannabis Decriminalization

How Oregon became the first U.S. state to remove criminal penalties for small-scale cannabis possession, and w...

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Portugal's Drug Decriminalization (2001)

How Portugal became the first European country to decriminalize personal possession of all drugs, and what the...

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Raphael Mechoulam

The Israeli organic chemist who isolated THC, co-discovered the endocannabinoid system, and shaped cannabis sc...

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Reefer Madness (1936 film)

The cautionary church-funded melodrama that became, decades later, the most famous unintentional comedy in can...

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Roger Adams

The American chemist whose 1940s lab work first isolated cannabidiol and laid the groundwork for modern cannab...

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SAFE Banking Act: Legislative History

A decade-long effort to give state-legal cannabis businesses access to ordinary banking services that has repe...

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San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club

The first public medical cannabis dispensary in the United States, founded by Dennis Peron in 1992 to serve AI...

9 sources 1 month ago