-2900 BC Chinese emperor Fu His references marijuana as popular medicine -1500 BC In Chinese Pharmacopeia is the earliest written reference to medical marijuana -1213 BC Egyptians use cannabis for Glaucoma, inflammation and enemas -1000 BC Cannabis and milk drink used as an anesthetic in India -200 BC Medical Cannabis used in Ancient Greece -1 AD Marijuana recommended for more than 100 ailments by ancient Chinese text -AD 70 Greek Physician Pedanius Dioscorides that the marijuana plant used to make ropes made a juice to suppress sexual longing and treat earache
-1538 Herbalist used hemp in the middle ages -1611-1762 Marijuana brought into North America by the Jamestown Settlers as the hemp fiber was and important export -1745-1775 George Washington are his own hemp key a journal about it -1799 During an invasion to Egypt Napoleon Bonaparte brings marijuana to France -1840s French psychiatrist discovers marijuana is a remedy for headaches, and helping people sleep and increase appetites -1850 Marijuana added to US Pharmacopeia -1900 South Asia use Cannabis to treat Asthma, Bronchitis and loss of Appetite -1911 Massachusetts first state to outlaw cannabis -1915-1927 Wyoming, Texas, Iowa, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Arkansas,Nebraska and New York pass marijuana prohibition laws -1918 60,000 pounds of cannabis grown annually by us pharmaceutical farms -Feb 19,1925 League of Nations Sign Multilateral Treaty Restricting Cannabis Use to Scientific and Medical Only
-1936 Marijuana starts being replaced by pain relievers like aspirin, morphine … -1937 Marijuana prescriptions decline due to “Marihuana Tax Act” -Oct 2 1937 Samuel R Caldwell first man recorded arrested for selling marijuana did it the day the stamp act was enacted -1942 US Pharmacopeia removes Marijuana -1968 Marijuana is officially grown for Federal Government at University of Mississippi -1973 (DEA) Drug Enforcement Agency established -Nov 24, 1976 Robert Randall first American allowed to receive marijuana to treat his medical disorder -Nov 5, 1996 California first state to legalize medical marijuana -Jan 1997-Mar 1999 Comprehensive Study conducted at the Institute of Medicine on the Medical effect of Marijuana -Aug 26, 2003 Jari Dvorak first Canadian patient of HIV to receive government grown marijuana -July 8- July 18 2005 California Suspends Then Resumes Medical Marijuana ID Card Program -March 16, 2006 Candy manufacturers busted by DEA for marijuana laced candy May 31, 2012 Connecticut 17th state legalizing medical marijuana May 3, 2015 Governor of Puerto Rico legalized Medical marijuana in us territory
Page from George Washington's diary dated Aug. 1765.
Chinese ideogram for marijuana ("ma")
Samuel Caldwell's mugshot
Emperor Fu Hsi
llustration of a cannabis plant from De Materia
Medica