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Politics, government, activism

By administration

  • Cannabis policy of the George W. Bush administration
  • Cannabis policy of the Bill Clinton administration

In the military

  • Cannabis and the Afghan military
  • Cannabis and the Mexican military
  • Cannabis and the Uruguayan military
  • Veterans Equal Access Act (U.S. proposed legislation in 2025)

People

  • Michael R. Aldrich, holder of the first Ph.D. ever granted from an American university in the mythology and folklore of cannabis
  • Tom Alexander (publisher), founder of the 1980s cannabis grower's journal Sinsemilla Tips that was targeted in 1989 by the DEA investigation called Operation Green Merchant
  • Tom Angell, founder of Marijuana Majority organization; editor, Marijuana Moment newsletter
  • Moses Baca, the first person arrested for cannabis. Further reading
  • Joan Bello, writer, activist
  • Russ Belville (image), cannabis activist
  • Tim Blake (Emerald Triangle), Emerald Triangle entrepreneur and founder of Cannabis Cup
  • Steve Bloom (writer)
  • Don Briere, Canada's "most prolific marijuana producer and distributor"
  • Dina Browner, proprietor, Alternative Herbal Health Services; founder, Freedom Grow; rumored to be the inspiration for Nancy Botwin’s character on Weeds
  • Joe Burton (image), prominent Kentucky hemp farmer
  • William “Wayward Bill” Chengelis, Colorado political activist
  • Richard Cowan (cannabis activist), NORML
  • Tonya Davis, Ohio activist
  • Anna Diaz, Oregon NORML
  • Ben Dronkers, founder of Sensi Seeds (1985)
  • Lowell Eggemeier, first cannabis legalization activist arrested, 1964
  • C. Michael Ford, Minnesota businessman, NORML activist, politician
  • Diane Fornbacher, NORML Women's Alliance
  • Neill Franklin, LEAP
  • Debby Goldsberry, Oregon activist, 2011 Freedom Fighter of the Year, Berkeley Patients Group ~9 sources on Google Books
  • Ben Grayzel, Portland filmmaker who made documentary Northwest Trees while in high school
  • Vicki Hartin, Texas NORML leader during 1980s-1990s, writer, published in High Times
  • Ras Ible, man who walked across the US in 2016, pulling his rickshaw-style mobile home, protesting for medical marijuana for veterans
  • Jafar Sharazi (or "Sheikh Haider/Haydar"), legendary Sufi leader
  • Maki Herbert, co-leader of the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
  • Michael Kennedy (attorney), activist and chairman of High Times (owner too)
  • Ellen Komp, California NORML
  • Franco Loja activist/businessman/"Strain Hunters" documentaries
  • Brother Louv
  • Guy Mount, publisher, author of Marijuana Mystery
  • Mary Lynn Mathre, Patients Out of Time
  • Todd McCormick, California activist
  • Terry Mitchell (activist), Interim-director of NORML in 1988, later founded Green Panthers
  • Rilie Ray Morgan, North Dakota activist
  • Pamela Novy, Virginia NORML
  • Paula Overby, Minnesota cannabis activist who died following surgery for a heart valve condition, in 2022, while running as a marijuana party candidate for US Congress
  • Joe Ptak, Texas activist, politician, one of the San Marcos 7
  • Irvin Rosenfeld
  • Pearl Schomburg, New Zealand cannabis advocate
  • Steph Sherer, Americans for Safe Access
  • Soudoun Scheikhouni, Arab emir who banned cannabis in 1378
  • Michka Seeliger-Chatelain, co-author of Le Dossier vert, d'une drogue douce (published under Michka Verlomme) & The Organic Grow Book & Medical Cannabis, co-founder of Mama Éditions publishing firm, has Sensei Seeds strain named for her
  • Zeal Stefanoff, Texas hemp advocate, Vietnam veteran and environmental activist, one of the San Marcos 7
  • Oliver Steinberg (image), anti-war movement, DFL Party, LGBTQ rights movement, and marijuana legalization movement agent provocateur; a Yippie activist during Viet Nam era, caught making firebombs and arrested in 1972 after shooting a police officer; in 1996 Steinberg was kicked out of Minnesota Grassroots Party (a party he helped to found 10 years earlier) for troublemaking, according to St. Paul Pioneer Press; author of "Let's eradicate marijuana from our vocabulary," first published in Holy Smoke; testified in 2023 against Minnesota Legal Marijuana Now! Party (another independent political party he played a role in creating, more than a decade earlier) before the Minnesota House and Senate, calling his former comrades bad names. Source
  • Gary Storck, Wisconsin activist
  • Arnold Trebach, Drug Policy Foundation founder
  • TROG
  • Balram Vaswani, Jamaica
  • Viki Vaurora, Indian activist
  • Dan Viets, NORML Board of Directors
  • Donte Westmoreland, activist, exonerated incarcerated person , honored with Donte West Cannabis Justice Day by Kansas City
  • Kerry Wiley, almost hanged in Malaysia
  • Alec Zammitt (draft), Australian activist

Films, documentaries, television, books, magazines, websites

  • 420: The Documentary, documentary film directed by Amy Porah
  • American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny
  • Benefits of Marijuana, Physical, Psychological, Spiritual, by Joan Bello, first published by Sweetlight Books
  • The Black Candle (book), 1922 anti-cannabis Canadian novel
  • Blacklisted News: Secret Histories from Chicago '68, to 1984
  • Buy This Book
  • Buy This Too
  • Le Dossier vert, d'une drogue douce
  • Drug Warriors and Their Prey, book
  • The Cannabist
  • The Future of Weed: High Country, documentary film
  • Ganjapreneur
  • Holy Smoke (magazine), 1990s periodical edited by Guy Mount, published by Sweetlight Books
  • How Weed Won the West
  • The Legend of 420 (draft) (2017 American documentary)
  • Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics: A Critical Analysis of Claims Made by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Robinson and Scherlen, SUNY Press, 2007
  • Lynching Charlie Lynch, documentary film
  • Marijuana Review, early magazine
  • Mary Janes: The Women of Weed (2017)
  • A NORML Life, documentary film
  • Patrick Gower: On Weed
  • RealSTONEDtimes
  • Ras Trent, SNL comedy video
  • What If Cannabis Cured Cancer, documentary film
  • When We Grow This Is What We Can Do, documentary film
  • The Yipster Times

Culture

Language

  • Can sa, Vietnamese word for marijuana
  • Chanvre (image1) (image2), French word for cannabis
  • Chronic (cannabis), a slang name for high quality cannabis
  • Dank (cannabis), a slang name for good cannabis
  • Doobie, a slang name for a cannabis cigarette. Used, for their name, by the American rock group The Doobie Brothers.
  • Etymology of hemp (image), history and usage of the common English name for cannabis, also a slang word used to mean marijuana
  • Grass, one of the most commonly used slang names for cannabis. During the 1968 US presidential election, supporters of Eugene McCarthy campaigned with the slogan, "Kennedy has the grass, McCarthy has the roots."
  • Grifa, Mexican Spanish word for marijuana, possibly the origin of the term reefer
  • Hanf (image1) (image2), German word for cannabis
  • Hennep, Dutch word for cannabis
  • Kind (cannabis), a slang name for marijuana, in particular, and for the entire cannabis culture, in general
  • Kinnab or Quinnab, Arabic word for cannabis
  • Ma (cannabis), Chinese word, the oldest name for cannabis, predates written history, ma is the root of the English word hemp and the German word hanf, etc., and the origins of words including the Greek name cannabis and the Mexican-American name marihuana can be traced back to ma. An excellent stub for an article about the word ma was recently deleted
  • Mary Jane (cannabis), a very widely used slang name for cannabis (variations include MJ)
  • Pakalolo, a Hawaiian slang name for marijuana or "crazy tobacco"
  • Pot (cannabis) (image), a commonly-used slang name for marijuana, possibly originating from the Spanish potiguaya
  • Potiguaya, Spanish word for cannabis, possibly derived from potacion de guaya, thought to be the origin of the slang name "pot."
  • Reefer (cannabis), widely used slang term for cannabis with a long history (possibly derived from reefing, or rolling up a canvas sail; or the word might have roots in the Mexican Spanish term for cannabis grifa)
  • Sam-gwa, Korean word for cannabis
  • Se-gyauk, Burmese (Myanmar) word for marijuana or hashish, Burmese script is ဆေးခြောက်
  • Taima, Japanese word for cannabis
  • Tea (cannabis), a slang name for marijuana dating to the Jazz Era, popularized in the 1950s by Jack Kerouac in novels such as On the Road. The commonly used term, particularly in the UK, was the basis for a name, The Tea Set, used by the psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd before the group changed their name in the mid-1960s. (A tea party is slang for a cannabis get-together, and a tea set is a hookah.)
  • Trees (cannabis), twenty-first century slang name for marijuana
  • Weed (cannabis) (image), according to some scholars, weed might be the most popular, contemporary slang name for cannabis

Health and medicine

  • Full-spectrum cannabis oil/Full-spectrum cannabis extract
  • THC remediation

Products and business

  • Blue Dream (cannabis), strain
  • Budder
  • Cannabis cocktail
  • Cannabis crate - Burn Box, Cannabox, Happy Crate etc.
  • Cannabis extract, distinguish from Cannabis concentrate (Extract is the broader term, including tinctures and other products which are not concentrated extracts, or "concentrates.")
  • CBD e-cigarettes, possibly as a section at Electronic cigarette
  • CBD gummies, possibly as a section at Gummy candy
  • Dank Dust, special "holiday" IPA from Elysian Brewing Company
  • GB Sciences, Nevada adult-use/FDA regulated supplier
  • Gorilla Glue (cannabis), strain
  • Hemp cheese
  • Hemp ice cream (image)
  • Hemp wine
  • Honey oil
  • Hydroponic cannabis
  • International Cannabis Business Conference since 2014
  • List of names for cannabis strains, distinguish from List of names for cannabis
  • List of controversial cannabis strain names, several names for cannabis strains have been banned by U.S. state and local governments over the years, including Charlotte’s Web, Girl Scout Cookies, and Grape Ape
  • Live resin
  • NoCo Hemp Expo (Colorado), started 2014, world's largest hemp trade show
  • Personal smoke filter (sploofy, smoke buddy)
  • Shatter (cannabis)
  • Skunk (cannabis), strain
  • Squire's Extract, early MMJ
  • SunLab, first purpose-built cannabis greenhouse in North America?
  • Sweetlight Books, California publishing house
  • Tyson Ranch, Mike Tyson's cannabis resort
  • Tyson 2.0, Mike Tyson's cannabis company
  • Taffy (cannabis)
  • Thai stick, heirloom strain (a good stub for an article about the topic was deleted recently)
  • Wax (cannabis)

Organizations, businesses, clubs

  • Agrupación Cannabicultores del Oeste, Argentina
  • Amorphia (1970s)
  • Association of Cannabis Retailers, Netherlands
  • Atalo Holdings
  • Breckenridge Cannabis Club
  • California NORML
  • Cannabis Commodities Exchange
  • Cannabis Trade Federation
  • CannaCraft (draft)
  • Coalition for Cannabis Policy, Education, and Reform
  • Fourth Corner Credit Union, specializes in cannabiz; received Federal Reserve master account
  • GenCanna
  • GreenCross New Zealand
  • Hawaiian Hemp Company
  • Hemp BC
  • Legalize Marijuana (LEMAR)
  • National Access Cannabis (Canada)
  • National Center for Natural Products Research
  • Partner Colorado credit union with >$900M annual cannabiz deposits
  • Sativa Yoga
  • Seattle Central College Cannabis Institute, public college program that offers Medical Marijuana Consultant certificate
  • Social Equity Ventures (Jay Z's VC fund)
  • Southern African Hemp Company
  • Stichting Mediwiet, Dutch MMJ org
  • United Kingdom Cannabis Social Club
  • West Virginia Farmer's Cooperative

Religion

By country

  • Cannabis in Guinea
  • Cannabis in Guinea-Bissau
  • Cannabis in Libya
  • Cannabis in Nicaragua
  • Cannabis in Niger
  • Cannabis in South Sudan

Sub-countries

  • Cannabis in Åland
  • Cannabis in Anguilla
  • Cannabis in the British Virgin Islands
  • Cannabis in Christmas Island
  • Cannabis in Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  • Cannabis in the Falklands
  • Cannabis in the Faroe Islands
  • Cannabis in Guernsey
  • Cannabis in the Isle of Man
  • Cannabis in Jersey
  • Cannabis in Norfolk Island
  • Cannabis in the Netherlands Antilles
  • Cannabis in Niue
  • Cannabis in the Pitcairn Islands
  • Cannabis in Saint Barthelemy
  • Cannabis in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
  • Cannabis in Saint Martin
  • Cannabis in Tokelau
  • Hemp in Ohio
  • Hemp in Oregon
  • Hemp in Wisconsin

Unrecognised countries

  • Cannabis in Abkhazia
  • Cannabis in Artsakh
  • Cannabis in Somaliland
  • Cannabis in South Ossetia
  • Cannabis in Transnistria

Translation

Note: Articles with small two-letter clickable blue links following them indicate an article which exists on other language Wikipedias, but not English Wikipedia, like so: Cannabis Social Club Français [fr]
  • Anandakanda [ru]; 10th C. Ayurvedic tract
  • Bena Riamba [de]
  • Cannabis (magazine) [he]
  • Cannabis 'Americana' [ru]
  • Cannabis-Beschluss [de]
  • Cannabis – Probieren geht über Regieren [de], Swiss film
  • Cannabis Social Club Français [fr]
  • Cannabis trafficking [fr]
  • Cannabutter [fr; nl] (image)
  • Collectif d'information et de recherche cannabique [fr]
  • La Comtesse Hachisch [fr]
  • Det norske Cannabispartiet
  • Deutscher Hanfverband [de]
  • Harm Dost [nl], Dutch trafficker
  • Dmitry Alexandrovich Gaiduk [ru]
  • Steffen Geyer [de]
  • Franjo Grotenhermen [de]
  • Grow! [de], magazine
  • Sofiane Hambli [fr]
  • Hemp seed [fr]
  • Informe Psicoactivo [es]
  • Israeli Medical Cannabis Association [he]
  • Kendermag Egyesület [hu], Hungarian advocacy group
  • Legalizace.cz [cs]
  • Liaison Antiprohibitionniste [fr]
  • Loi du 31 décembre 1970 [fr]
  • Franco Loja [it], involved in Strainhunters series
  • Medical Cannabis Association of Israel [he]
  • Nederlandse associatie voor legale Cannabis en haar Stoffen als Medicatie [nl]
  • The Poem of Hashish [ru], Baudelaire
  • Promena Movement [bg] (Bulgaria) (draft)
  • Растаманские народные сказки [ru] "Rastaman folk tales", banned or blocked by Federal Drug Control Service of Russia
  • Peter Reynolds (politician) [fi], UK activist
  • Roter Libanese [de]
  • Sarasani [nl]
  • Sumo Tournament Cannabis Scandal [ja]
  • Swiss cannabis referendum (2008) [fr; de]
  • Ukrainian Industrial Hemp Association [uk]
  • Boaz Wachtel [ru; he], Israeli activist/entrepeneur
  • Wietpas [nl]
  • Koos Zwart [nl], activist
  • 房祖名柯震东吸毒事件 [zh]
  • 金陽吸毒事件 [zh]
  • Verbond voor Opheffing van het Cannabisverbod [nl]

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Video

  • Hash oil, clip of dabbing rig in use
  • Hashish, clip of traditional or modern hashish production

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