Hemp History Archives

1851: Marijuana is listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia. In the 1820's several American medical societies created the first edition of ...

1854: One of the first americans to write about cannabis. Among the first Americans to write about hashish was not ...

1857: Fitz Hugh Ludlow writes The Hasheesh Eater. Fitz Hugh Ludlow, or Fitzhugh Ludlow, born September 11, 1836 was an ...

From the 1860's through the early 1900's, World Fairs and International Expositions featured a Turkish Hashish Smoking exhibit and concession ...

1890: A cannabis tincture is prescribed to Queen Victoria. In 1890 Sir J. Russel Reynolds, neurologist and physician was the ...

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 ...