by budtendernation | Dec 7, 2018 | BudHistory
Brownie Mary Aptly born as Mary Jane Rathbun, Brownie Mary, as she would famously be called, was a major figure in the fight for the legalization of medical cannabis. In 1996, the New York Times compared Rathbun to the domestic goddesses of American...
by budtendernation | Nov 20, 2018 | BudHistory
Israeli chemist Dr. Raphael Mechoulam has contributed significantly to our understanding of the science behind cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system as we know it today. He was born an unlikely cannabisapostle in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 5, 1930. Mechoulam...
by budtendernation | Nov 16, 2018 | BudHistory
In the early twentieth century, the Flexner Report, funded by billionaires and created by a businessman, permanently changed the face of American medicine. Commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation and funded by oil tycoon J.D. Rockefeller, this report resulted in the...
by budtendernation | Nov 2, 2018 | BudHistory
Dennis Peron, aka the father of medical marijuana, was a prominent figure in the medical legalization movement in California. He was an activist who was among the first to argue for the palliative effects of marijuana. Born in the Bronx, Peron’s lifelong love of...
by budtendernation | Oct 31, 2018 | BudHistory
It Started with One Powerful Anti-Marijuana Voice. While cannabis has traditionally been used for both medicinal and recreational purposes around the globe for thousands of years, it was only in the last century that it became demonized and declared illegal in the US....
