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Visible Problems with “Invisible Pot Addicts”
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from contributing editor Brooks Hudson, a PhD candidate in history at Southern Illinois University. The...
Brooks Hudson
Jan 3, 20196 min read
Video: Lucia Romero at Cannabis: Global Histories
Editor’s Note: You can see Lucia Romero discuss her work on grassroots mobilization for access to medical cannabis in Argentina below....
Points Editors
Aug 2, 20181 min read
Grassroots Activism in Argentina: The Story of Mamá Cultiva, CAMEDA, and Medical Marijuana
Editor’s Note: This is the last post in our series from the Cannabis: Global Histories conference, held at the University of Strathclyde...
Lucia Romero
Jul 31, 20185 min read
Forces of necessity: The role of lay knowledge and advocacy in the re-medicalization of cannabis
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Dr. Suzanne Taylor, Research Fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of...
Suzanne Taylor
Jul 19, 20184 min read
Video: Matthew DeCloedt at Cannabis: Global Histories
Editor’s Note: Did you hear? Yesterday, Canada’s Senate passed legislation legalizing recreational marijuana use for adults. Legalization...
Points Editors
Jun 21, 20181 min read
Human Rights Claims and Medical Cannabis in Canada: A View from the Courts
Editor’s Note: Today’s post comes from Matthew DeCloedt, a law student at Central European University and a participant in the Cannabis:...
Matthew DeCloedt
Jun 19, 20184 min read
Hot Take: Dr. Oz Defends Medical Marijuana on “Fox & Friends”
Anyone tuning in to Fox & Friends this week was treated to an awkward moment courtesy of Dr. Oz, when he went off-script after plugging...
Kyle Bridge
Sep 21, 20172 min read
Donald Trump on Drugs: Election 2016, Part I
In response to Donald Trump’s sniffly debate performances over the last month-and-a-half of the 2016 presidential campaign, the...
Kyle Bridge
Nov 3, 20163 min read
Trick or Treat? On Laced Candy and Other Drug Myths
Beware… or don’t. This year, medical marijuana is on the ballot in my home state of Florida, and it’s likely to pass: the latest...
Kyle Bridge
Oct 27, 20162 min read
THE FUTURE OF UK MEDICAL MARIJUANA REMAINS BLURRY BUT THERE ARE LESSONS TO TAKE AWAY FROM CANADA
Editor’s Note: Today’s post is cross-hosted at Points and Cannabis Life Network. Contact author Lucas Richert at...
Lucas Richert
Oct 4, 20165 min read
Holy Smoke: Religious Freedom and Medical Marijuana in the 1990s.
During my visit to the NORML archives, I found a few interesting items on religious uses of marijuana during the 1990s [1]. These were...
Bob Beach
Sep 15, 20166 min read
Touring Tilray: Navigating Canada’s New Marketing and Selling of Medical Cannabis
Editor’s Note: This post is brought to you by Cynthia Belaskie and Lucas Richert. Richert is a lecturer in history at University of...
Lucas Richert
May 12, 20167 min read
Proving Cannabis – A History of Nineteenth Century Medical Marijuana
“During the month of September, 1862, I took Cannabis on various occasions,” confessed Dr. W. A. D. Pierce in the pages of American...
Adam Rathge
Nov 18, 20144 min read
Why Is Marijuana Illegal? A Historical View – Part Two
Why is marijuana illegal? Do a quick internet search and you’ll find a series of generally related answers: racism, fear, corporate...
Adam Rathge
Oct 28, 20147 min read
Road to Prohibition: Marijuana, the Long Story – Part One
EDITOR’S NOTE: Today’s post is the first in a two-part series by contributing editor Adam Rathge. The series is drawn from Rathge’s...
Adam Rathge
Oct 16, 20146 min read
“The Drug Store of the Future”: Prohibition and Medicalization
A few weeks ago I had spent a couple of hours surfing the National Institute of Health’s fascinating online library, Images of the...
Emily Dufton
May 27, 20144 min read
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