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...
Cannabis on the Silk Road
How the plant traveled the trade routes of Eurasia, what the archaeology actually shows, and where the romanti...
Cheech and Chong
The comedy duo who turned stoner humor into a mainstream cultural force from 1971 onward.
Cole Memo Rescission (2018)
Attorney General Jeff Sessions revoked Obama-era federal guidance on state cannabis enforcement in January 201...
Colorado Amendment 20 (2000)
The voter-approved constitutional amendment that established Colorado's medical cannabis program and laid the...
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...
Gonzales v. Raich
The 2005 Supreme Court decision that let federal cannabis prohibition override state medical marijuana laws th...
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 for Victory (1942 film)
The USDA's wartime propaganda film that pushed American farmers to grow hemp, then was quietly disowned for de...
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...
Jack Herer
American cannabis activist, author of The Emperor Wears No Clothes, and namesake of one of the most famous can...
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.