Maryland’s Marijuana Connection
Medicinal marijuana is shrouded in controversy and fought — often protested — on the steps and within America’s proverbial courtroom.
Legalize Pot
In late March 2002, Maryland’s House of Delegates voted 80 to 56 for a bill that would create a court defense team for patients who use marijuana for medicinal purposes. With AIDS patients [...]

Marijuana as Medicine
Marijuana as medicine is a debate that still rages, but increasing support among the medical community, and among vocal users that benefit from the properties of marijuana is certain to ensure that more states legalize marijuana for medicinal use.
The benefits of marijuana have long been known but prejudice and politics have served to [...]

Marijuana as Medicine
The topic of medicinal marijuana has been a hotbed of debate during the last decade and with more and more states legalizing the use of marijuana for medical purposes the debate and the legal wrangling is expected to continue. Prior to 1937, marijuana was used in a variety of medicines that were legally [...]

Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914
Public Acts of the Sixty-Third Congress of the United States
Woodrow Wilson, President; Thomas R. Marshall, Vice-President; James P. Clarke, President of the Senate pro tempore; Claude A. Swanson, Acting President of the Senate pro tempore, December 21 to 23, 29 to 31, 1914, and January 2, 1915; Nathan P. Bryan, [...]

The History of Marijuana In The U.S.
Most marijuana smokers are quick to mention that marijuana grows wild in the U.S. and that Native Americans used the weed for religious ceremonies, as a medicinal herb for various ailments and as a pre-battle smoke to calm the nerves and possibly provide added ferocity. They are quite correct [...]

The History of Marijuana In The U.S.
In 1948 Anslinger got a break. Robert Mitchum was busted on felony narcotics charges. Possession and conspiracy to possess marijuana.
Anslinger chalked that up as one marijuana user that was no longer gainfully employed and the publicity did quite a bit to raise public awareness of marijuana use. Still, Anslinger [...]

Narcotics Control Act of 1956
Marijuana Laws, The Mob, and Television
In 1956 Americans were privileged to be able to watch the first televised Senate hearings. The Senator Estes Kefuaver from Tennessee was conducting hearings on organized crime. In this television milestone organized crime was talked about in-depth, and for many Americans, this was their first glimpse [...]

Marijuana laws in the 1950’s
Marijuana laws in the 1950s changed radically. Gone were the days in which care-free smoking was a minor irritation to the authorities. Time’s, they were a’changin.
Enter the age of the communists, McCarthy, rebels without a cause and teenage werewolves. If that all seems a bit much, consider that music and movies [...]

Marijuana As A Gateway Drug: Early Marijuana Views of Anslinger
Mr. Anslinger: This drug is not being used by those who have been using heroin and morphine. It is being used by a different class, by a much younger group of people. The age of the morphine and heroin addict is increasing all the time, whereas [...]

Marijuana As A Gateway Drug: The Real Drug War Begins
Anslinger changed the way marijuana was viewed with one small statement. Marijuana as a gateway drug was perceived as a much bigger threat than marijuana as a breeder of criminals. The very elements that allowed people to view marijuana as harmless now made the drug sinister. [...]