Medical marijuana throughout the years

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
11/30/1830	Introduction of marijuana into Western medicine	Irish physician and assistant surgeon and professor of chemistry at the Medical College of Calcutta, William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, is credited with introducing the therapeutic use of cannabis to Western medicine in the 1930s.
11/30/1914	Harrison Act	Under the Harrison Act, the use of marijuana was considered a crime.
11/30/1917	Advertisement	An advertisement for cannabis americana distributed by a pharmacist in New York.
11/30/1937	Marijuana Tax Act	The United States banned cannabis in a federal law and 23 states outlawed use of marijuana.
11/30/1970	1970s to the 1980s	Six U.S. states' health departments performed studies on the use of medical cannabis. These are widely considered some of the most useful and pioneering studies on the subject
11/30/1973	Medical Marijuana debate ignites, again	Physician Tod H. Mikuriya reignited the debate concerning cannabis as medicine when he published "Marijuana Medical Papers".
11/06/1996	California is first state to legalize marijuana
10/01/2003	Maryland adjusts medical marijuana laws	This law requires the court to consider a defendant's use of medical marijuana to be a mitigating factor in marijuana-related state prosecution. If the patient, post-arrest, successfully makes the case at trial that his or her use of marijuana is one of medical necessity, then the maximum penalty allowed by law would be a $100 fine.
10/19/2009	Federal regulation lightens	Attorney General relaxes punishment fpr medical marijuana-users.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
11/30/1930 to 11/30/2009	History of medical marijuana	Important events pertaining to medical marijuana