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Banning marijuana growth
The Marijuana tax act effectively bans growing, sale and consumption of marijuana. -
Emergency Hemp Production
President Franklin Roosevelt signs an executive order that allow for emergency hemp production for industrial uses during War World II for canvas, cordage, rope, oil and fodder. Numerous Midwest states were subsidized to produce industrial hemp in support of the war effort. -
Banning Hemp Production
As soon as the war concluded, the Roosevelt administration re-banned industrial hemp production, stopped subsidizing its production and teaching farmers how to cultivate it. Facing stiff federal penalties, industrial hemp farmers had to plow under their hemp crops and pharmacists had to have all cannabis-related medicines off of store shelves -
Nixon
President Nixon launches an "all-out offensive' on drugs, establishing the first White House anti-drug office. -
ITS PEAKING
Drug use peaks, as 25 million Americans regularly consume illegal substances. -
Reagan declares 'War on Drugs'
On this day in 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared illicit drugs to be a threat to U.S. national security. -
San Francisco started it all
San Francisco become the first city to pass an ordinance—with a 79% support rate— in favor of medical patients having access to cannabis. -
Police are cracking down
Police arrest 1.7 million people nationwide for drug use
