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Cannabis in Western European Film During the 1910s

A short survey of how hashish appeared on early silent-era screens in Western Europe, and what we actually kno...

9 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis on the Silk Road

How the plant traveled the trade routes of Eurasia, what the archaeology actually shows, and where the romanti...

12 sources 1 month ago

Cheech and Chong

The comedy duo who turned stoner humor into a mainstream cultural force from 1971 onward.

9 sources 5 months ago

Cole Memo Rescission (2018)

Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked Obama-era federal guidance on state cannabis enforcement in January 201...

8 sources 4 months ago

Colorado Amendment 20 (2000)

The voter-approved constitutional amendment that established Colorado's medical cannabis program and laid the...

10 sources 5 months ago

Conant v. Walters

The 2002 Ninth Circuit ruling that protected doctors' First Amendment right to recommend cannabis to patients.

9 sources 6 months ago

Czech Republic Cannabis Decriminalization

How the Czech Republic became one of Europe's most cannabis-tolerant jurisdictions through a series of legisla...

8 sources 5 months ago

DC Initiative 71 (2014)

The 2014 ballot measure that legalized personal cannabis possession and home cultivation in Washington, DC — b...

8 sources 6 months ago

DJ Short

American cannabis breeder credited with developing Blueberry and related fruit-flavored cultivars beginning in...

6 sources 5 months ago

Dennis Peron

The San Francisco activist who turned personal grief into Proposition 215 and helped launch medical cannabis i...

8 sources 4 months ago

Dr. Sue Sisley

Arizona physician and researcher who became the first scientist to run a federally approved clinical trial of...

8 sources 3 months ago

First Medical Cannabis Dispensaries in California

How AIDS-era buyers' clubs in San Francisco evolved into the country's first legal medical cannabis dispensari...

10 sources 4 months ago

Gonzales v. Raich

The 2005 Supreme Court decision that let federal cannabis prohibition override state medical marijuana laws th...

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Harry J. Anslinger

The first U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics commissioner who shaped American cannabis prohibition from 1930 to...

14 sources 3 months ago

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...

10 sources 5 months ago

Hemp Textile History

A look at how Cannabis sativa fiber clothed, rigged, and papered civilizations long before it was banned as a...

13 sources 2 months ago

Hemp for Victory (1942 film)

The USDA's wartime propaganda film that pushed American farmers to grow hemp, then was quietly disowned for de...

6 sources 2 weeks ago

Hemp in Early American Flags

Examining the popular claim that the first American flags were made of hemp, and what the historical record ac...

9 sources 5 months ago

High Times Cannabis Cup

From a small 1988 Amsterdam tasting competition to a sprawling, controversial brand that helped shape modern c...

9 sources 3 months ago

Jack Herer

American cannabis and hemp legalization activist, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, and namesake of a po...

10 sources 3 months ago

Jack Herer

American cannabis activist, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, and namesake of one of the most famous can...

8 sources 4 weeks ago

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...

9 sources 6 months ago

Jorge Cervantes

The pen name of George Van Patten, an American cannabis cultivation author whose books shaped home growing fro...

6 sources 3 months ago

Just Say No

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

12 sources 4 months ago