Tag: history

As a botanist myself, I always look for the proper names of things — especially plants. There is a reason for this, and any first year plant...

Langston draws some interesting lines between early American racial history and the characterization of drug users. Maybe that is how the government has justified the overblown, overreaching...

Not all philosophy students evolve into weed smoking and Socrates-quoting free spirits. But, in my experience, many do.

In a new study, researchers found that women between the age of 30 and 50 are key players in the battle for legalization in Colorado and Washington.

Recent investigation into the 2500 year old mummified Ukok ‘Ice Princess’ (named after the permafrost plateau in the Altai Mountains where scientists found the remains), indicate that...

Many are unaware that before it was termed ‘marijuana’, most people in the U.S. referred to the plant as ‘cannabis’. So where does the word ‘marijuana’ come...

While the NY Times is doing some good work in rationally addressing the veil of bullshit and mystique that has clouded marijuana’s history in America, they conveniently...

Leaf Science takes us on a little stroll through medical marijuana history, from 2737 BC China to ancient Greece to 2nd century Egypt, where Egyptians used cannabis as...

The Leaf Online delves into the roots of hemp in American culture such as when and where it was first grown, as well as how it was used for industrial, medicinal, religious...

The Allman Brothers Band is a stoner classic. I’m sure plenty of Weedists out there have spent some time gettin’ high and listening to this band. If you haven’t...

Hemp Bound: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution by Doug Fine (2014, Chelsea Green Publishers, 145 pp., $12.16 PB Amazon) Hemp shouldn’t have anything...

The use of cannabis as a de facto currency predates the founding of the United States and may be found in the historical record in the early 17th century. Hemp:...

  “If we value rather than vilify the healing power of this versatile plant, we can improve our world by making it a more compassionate, just, and...

Travis Irvine shows the history of marijuana, from ancient medicine through prohibition.

Excavation of the stone age city Çatalhöyük in Turkey has yielded the earliest hemp fabric ever found.

I recently was turned on to an interesting blog from the Brooklyn Public Library. It is an older entry, from 2011. I had known that New York,...

It always seems a little funny to me to be suggesting great music to listen to while high because I think if it’s great music, it’s going...

It is not a new theory that the “pipe-weed” from Tolkien’s Hobbit and LOTR is actually cannabis. I thought I would do a little research on the...

  Our resident artist Michael Ian Weinfeld does it again with this latest minimalist pic. This one paying tribute to American folk singer Pete Seeger, who passed...

Drugs, Crime, and Violence: From Trafficking to Treatment by Howard Rahtz (2013, Hamilton Press, 141 pp., $25.98 PB Amazon) The Drug Wars in America, 1940-1973 by Kathleen Frydl (2013,...