Hemp History 20th Century Archives

Early 1920s: The Jazz and Marijuana revolution. In New Orleans, around the turn of the 20th century, ‘Storyville’, the city’s ...

1906: The Pure Food and Drug Act makes cannabis legally available. Federal regulation of drugs began with the Pure Food ...

1914: US Congress Passes Harrison Narcotics Act. In the 1800s opiates and cocaine were mostly unregulated drugs. In the 1890s ...

1941: Henry Ford presents "the car that grows in the field". The Soybean car, also known as the Hemp body ...

1925: The United States supports the regulation of Indian hemp. In 1925 the United States supported regulation of Indian hemp, ...

Hemp for Victory is a United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942 to encourage ...

The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as ...

Ben Gocker, a librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, discovered that in Brooklyn, in the early fifties, cannabis plants grew ...

1960: The Flower Power culture brought out the popularity of marijuana. Before marijuana became popular in the US, it was ...