Tag: history

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February 26, 2013
02/26/2013
Chronicle Review Essay: More on Marijuana

Chronicle Review Essay: More on Marijuana

Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana—Medical, Recreational, and Scientific, by Martin Lee (2012, Scribners, 519 pp., $23.10 HC Amazon) Super-Charged: How Outlaws, Hippies, and Scientists Reinvented...
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February 19, 2013
02/19/2013
Book Review: It’s NORML to Smoke Pot by Keith Stroup

Book Review: It’s NORML to Smoke Pot by Keith Stroup

NORML founder Keith Stroup’s book, It’s NORML to Smoke Pot: The Forty Year Fight for Marijuana Smokers’ Rights (Kindle Edition here), weaves the name-dropping tell-all with political commentary...
By: Anna Diaz
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November 27, 2012
11/27/2012
Hemp for Victory – 1942 US Federal Pro-American Hemp Propaganda Film

Hemp for Victory – 1942 US Federal Pro-American Hemp Propaganda Film

Here’s a video that every marijuana prohibitionist should see, Hemp for Victory. This film was produced and released by the US government in 1942 to promote growing...
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October 10, 2012
10/10/2012
Video: Hemp Can Save the World

Video: Hemp Can Save the World

Hemp has been a part of United States history since before it was even a country. When Christopher Columbus sailed to America in 1492, he brought hemp...
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September 20, 2012
09/20/2012
It’s Time to Legalize Cannabis

It’s Time to Legalize Cannabis

Hey Kids, what time is it? It’s Time to Legalize Cannabis! Reason’s Mike Riggs does a succinct interview with David Bronner, of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps. Mr....
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September 18, 2012
09/18/2012
US Government Grew Hemp Where Pentagon Now Stands

US Government Grew Hemp Where Pentagon Now Stands

According to a report from the Washington Post, the land where the U.S. Pentagon stands was once occupied by fields of hemp. Lyster H. Dewey was a botanist for...
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September 12, 2012
09/12/2012
Video: Drugs vs America!

Video: Drugs vs America!

Drugs vs America… The Drug War is America’s longest-running war. We have a long national history of drug use and cultivation. John Fugelsang lets loose after seeing...
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September 11, 2012
09/11/2012
13 Key Moments In Marijuana History (PHOTOS)

13 Key Moments In Marijuana History (PHOTOS)

Huff Posts shares 13 photos that capture key moments in America’s marijuana history, ranging from Louis Armstrong to Bob Dylan to Oaksterdam.  
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