January 1, 2018 First day of legal adult sales in CA

January 27, 2014 Obama’s Farm Bill took effect, recognizing industrial hemp as 0.3% THC

January 31, 2011 Veterans Admin stopped drug testing for cannabis if patient has state med approval

February 6, 2004 HIA v DEA, Appeals court ruled DEA cannot ban hempseed products

March 22, 1972 The Shafer Commission, President Nixon’s National Commission on Marihuana and Other Drugs, issued its report, Marijuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, calling for marijuana decriminalization

April 4, 2012 Richard Lee’s businesses and Oaksterdam Cannabis Museum raided by federal DOJ

April 20 Unofficial day of celebration for cannabis

May 19, 1969 Leary vs USA, Supreme Court ruled that the federal Marihuana Tax Act was unconstitutional

June 6, 2005 Gonzalez v Raich, Supreme Court ruled that feds can raid state-legal MMJ gardens

June 14, 2000 After being forbidden from using his approved MMJ to prevent vomiting and telling the judge that it was essentially a death sentence, Peter McWilliams choked on his own vomit and died.  

June 17, 1971 Nixon called marijuana “Public Enemy #1” and declared “War on Drugs,” against the advice of his own Presidential Advisory Commission, the Shafer Commission

July 4, 1996 Jeff Jones opened OCBC dispensary in Oakland

July 9, 1975 Moscone Act was signed into law, decriminalizing marijuana in California for adults.  

July 18, 2002 Mower decision: State Appeals Court ruled that Prop 215 allows any reasonable amount of marijuana for a qualified patient’s personal medical use

Aug 1, 1990 Operation Green Sweep: 200 federal troops raided 22 marijuana gardens in Humboldt.

August 2, 1937 President FD Roosevelt signed the Marihuana Tax Act into Law, against the wishes of farmers, industrialists and the American Medical Assn.

August 2, 1977 President Carter called on Congress to decrim marijuana on the 40th anniversary of the Marihuana Tax Act.

August 4, 1996 Dennis Peron’s CBC was raided by state narcs during height of Prop 215 campaign

Aug 15-19, 1983 CAMP (Campaign Against Marijuana Planting) aerial oversight and eradication program launched with raids in Humboldt county, program continued for decades.

August 16, 1964 Lowell Eggemeier lit up a joint in the San Francisco Hall of Justice in protest. He was arrested.

August 29, 2013, President Obama issued the Cole memo to protect state MMJ programs from federal raids

August 31, 1948 Movie star Robert Mitchum arrested for marijuana in Hollywood

September 6, 1988 DEA Admin. Law Judge Francis Young ruled that DEA had mis-scheduled cannabis and it must be down scheduled. Appeals court said the DEA could set its own time schedule and it never did it.

October 1, 1937 Marihuana Tax Act took effect, $100 per ounce tax stamp on marijuana and banning the cultivation of industrial hemp.  

October 7, 1955 Allen Ginsburg gave public reading of Howl, which references hashish and marijuana

October 12, 2003 SB 420 signed by Gov Gray Davis, creating a legal defense for medical marijuana collectives of qualified medical marijuana patients.  

October 7, 2007 Oaksterdam University founded by Richard Lee

November 5, 1996 California Prop 215, The Compassionate Use Act, passed legalizing medical cannabis use.

November 8, 2016 California Prop 64, The Adult Use Act, passed legalizing adult use and regulating sales.

December 25, Every year People give cannabis to friends and family for Christmas. What was your favorite cannabis gift?