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...
The Grapefruit Warning and CBD
Why the sticker on your statin bottle also applies to your CBD oil, and what the evidence actually shows.
The Indica/Sativa Myth
The most repeated claim in cannabis culture — that indica sedates and sativa energizes — is not supported by c...
The League of Nations and Cannabis
How a 1925 international convention quietly pulled cannabis into the global drug control system that still sha...
The Marihuana Tax Act Made Cannabis Illegal
A stubborn myth: the 1937 federal statute did not criminalize cannabis outright — it taxed and regulated it in...
The Myrcene 0.5% Threshold
The internet's favorite cannabis rule — that myrcene above 0.5% makes a strain 'indica' or couch-locking — has...
The Ogden Memo (2009)
A Department of Justice memorandum that signaled federal forbearance toward state-legal medical cannabis — and...
The Origin of Girl Scout Cookies
How a Bay Area cross became one of the most influential — and most disputed — cannabis cultivars of the 2010s.
The Origin of Haze (Original Haze)
How a pair of brothers in 1970s Santa Cruz produced the sativa hybrid that reshaped global cannabis breeding.
The Shafer Commission Report (1972)
The Nixon-era federal commission that recommended decriminalizing personal cannabis use — and was promptly ign...
The Sour Diesel Origin Debate
The tangled and disputed history of how one of America's most famous sativa-leaning hybrids came to be.
Thrip Damage Diagnosis
How to identify thrips on cannabis, distinguish their damage from mites and other pests, and confirm an active...
Thunder Cheese
A pungent cheese-leaning hybrid with limited verifiable lineage records and no strain-specific clinical resear...
Tier 2 Manufacturer
A cannabis license classification for facilities that produce infused products from extracts but do not perfor...
Tilray Brands
A multinational cannabis and beverage company formed by the 2021 merger of Tilray and Aphria, with a large Can...
Tilray IPO
The July 2018 Nasdaq listing that briefly made a money-losing cannabis startup more valuable than American Air...
Tilray Portugal
A medical cannabis cultivation and processing campus in central Portugal owned by Tilray Brands, supplying EU...
Tinctures Are Always Sublingual
The popular claim that cannabis tinctures work fastest under the tongue is only partly true, and often not tru...