Early 1920s: Jazz and Marijuana revolution

Early 1920s: The Jazz and Marijuana revolution

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

1906: The Pure Food and Drug Act makes cannabis legally available

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

1914: US Congress Passes Harrison Narcotics Act

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"

1941: Henry Ford presents “the car that grows in the field”

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 regulation of Indian hemp

1925: The United States supports the regulation of Indian hemp

1925: The United States supports the regulation of Indian hemp. In 1925 the United States supported regulation of Indian hemp, ...
1942: The film ‘Hemp for Victory’ encourage farmers to grow as much as possible

1942: The film ‘Hemp for Victory’ encourage farmers to grow as much as possible

Hemp for Victory is a United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942 to encourage ...
1950: The Beat Generation experiments with marijuana

1950: The Beat Generation experiments with marijuana

The Beat Generation was a group of American post-World War II writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, as ...
1951: New York wipes out wild cannabis plants

1951: New York wipes out wild cannabis plants

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

1960: The Flower Power culture brought out the popularity of marijuana

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