8000 BC: the first woven fabric is made of hemp
2727 BC: China begins using marijuana as medicine
105 AD: the Chinese make the first paper from mulberry and hemp
500 AD: cannabis reaches Europe by way of India and Africa
1484: the Pope declares that smoking cannabis is sacrilegious
1492: Christopher Columbus brings cannabis sativa to the New World
1619: Jamestown colony law requires all settlers to grow cannabis
1776: the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper
1789: Napoleon discovers Egyptian lower class smokes pot habitually. He bans it in France
1797: Washington’s primary crop at Mount Vernon is cannabis
1859: US domestic production of hemp peaks just before the civil war at 40,000 tons
1876: The Sultan of Turkey gives the US marijuana as a gift
1880: Turkish smoking parlors open up all over the Northeast US
1891: Queen Victoria is prescribed marijuana to relieve menstrual cramps
1908: Henry Ford’s first model T is made with hemp plastic and runs on hemp ethanol
1914: El Paso Texas passes a city law banning possession of marijuana
1919: The Dutch pass the Opium Act, the road map for Holland’s tolerance of soft drug use
1920 – 1933: US prohibition on alcohol
1928: the UK bans the recreational use of cannabis under the Dangerous Drugs Act
1935: Henry Ford’s Farm Chermugic Council Report plans to ‘grow’ both car parts and fuel from the land using hemp, as an attempt to merge urban industry with the farmer
1937: Federal law bans marijuana via the marijuana tax act
1937: America makes first pot arrest. Samuel R. Caldwell gets four years for possession
1941: Henry Ford introduces a car made with plastic hemp panels (also sisal and wheat straw)
1942: the US Military uses marijuana as truth serum
1942: The USDA releases “Hemp for Victory” and 200,000 pounds of seeds to the American farmers
1943: my grandfather grows “Hemp for Victory” for the USDA
1944: The Laguardia Report (NYC) found no reason to keep marijuana illegal
1944: Harry Anslinger threatened to jail any doctors who researched marijuana
1947: the federal ‘war on marijuana’ 1937 to 1947 costs taxpayers $220 million
1951: my grandfather’s aging, uncollected, federal ‘victory’ hemp pile burns to the ground
1951: US passes the Boggs Act which imposes strict mandatory minimum sentences on all drug crimes. Marijuana is lumped together with all narcotics for the first time.
1956: US passes the Narcotic Control Act, further escalating all drug penalties
1961: at the United Nations, 100 countries agree to make marijuana illegal around the world via the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs
1963: war on marijuana, 1948-1963, costs US taxpayers $1.5 billion
1060’s: the average THC concentration of cannabis is less than 1%
1961: The U.N. Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs effectively outlawed marijuana all around the world
1964: Lowell Eggemeier challenges current marijuana laws in San Francisco and started the first legalize marijuana organization, LEMAR
1965: one million Americans had tried marijuana
1968: The Wootton Report (UK) concludes that marijuana should be decriminalized
1969: Senate hearing on Marijuana Legislation; congress passes the Controlled Substances act which reduced mandatory minimum penalties for possession in 1970
1969: War on marijuana, 1964 to 1969 costs US taxpayers $9 billion
1970: The LeDain Report (Canada) concludes that marijuana should be decriminalized
1972: 24 million Americans had tried marijuana
1972: The Schafer Report (for Nixon) recommended marijuana be decriminalized
1970’s: Hawaiian pot growers are the first to grow marijuana hydroponically
1972: Ann Arbor, Michigan is the first city to decriminalize simple marijuana possession
1973: Nixon established the Drug Enforcement Agency
1973: Oregon is the first state to decriminalize marijuana
1974: Medical College of Virginia study “Antineoplastic activity of cannabinoids,”finds evidence that THC slowed the growth of three kinds of cancer in mice — lung and breast cancer, and a virus-induced leukemia. The report is surpressed.
1975: Ganga in Jamaica report found medical benefits to the use of marijuana
1976: on the campaign trail, Jimmy Carter comes out in favor of decriminalization
1977: War on marijuana, 1970 to 1977, costs US taxpayers $76 billion
1980’s: the Regan administration begins its war on drugs
1980: Cannabis in Costa Rica report finds no reason for marijuana to be illegal
1980: War on marijuana, 1980 to 1998, $214.7 billion
1980’s: every 38 seconds someone is arrested for violating cannabis law
1989: California’s governor Dukmejian recommended that marijuana be decriminalized and allow cultivation for personal use
1993: the UK licensed the growing of industrial hemp
1994 (spring): Chris Boucher’s industrial hemp crop in the Imperial Valley, California is permitted by the USDA
1994 (fall): Chris Boucher’s industrial hemp crop is confiscated by the feds
1985: Jack Herer publishes his underground classic “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” which may have saved hemp from oblivion.
1996: Proposition 215 passes in California, medical marijuana is legal
1998: Canada re-legalizes industrial hemp
2000: researchers in Madrid announce they have destroyed incurable brain cancer tumors in rats by injecting them with THC. This research report is ignored and supressed
2002: Cannabis: Our Position for a Canadian Public Policy (Senate) report finds no reason for marijuana to be illegal
2003: Canada is the first country in the world to offer medical marijuana to its patients
2004: Oakland passes Measure Z which demotes marijuana to the lowest legal priority
2005: (August) Los Angeles dispensary count: 11
2006: (August) Los Angeles dispensary count: 93
2006: (December) Los Angeles dispensary count: 237
2008: the average THC concentration is 9.6%
2008: the UN reports that 172 countries or territories worldwide grow marijuana
2009: Los Angeles dispensary count: 'guesstimated' at 1,000 +
2010: Los Angeles dispensary count now allowed by law: less than 130
Today: marijuana is America’s # 1 cash crop at $36 billion per year
2010: California’s Prop 19 fails to legalize marijuana for all adults for all purposes. Hemp would have been legalized as well.
2010: Arizona’s Prop 203 passes, protecting medical marijuana and a dispensary system
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