Interactive educational timeline

Cannabis: From Genomic Origins to Modern Policy

A documentary-style timeline that layers genomics, medicine, law, culture, sports policy, and informal medical practice. Use the layer toggles to follow one narrative thread or compare how multiple forces shaped the same era.

Showing 14 of 14 events.

  1. ≈ 27-34 million years ago

    Cannabis and Humulus diverge in the Cannabaceae family

    Biology / Genomicssciencebiology

  2. Prehistory (~10,000 BCE onward)

    Wild range in Central Asia and Himalayas meets human selection

    Biology / GenomicsMedical sciencesciencebiologymedical

  3. 5000 BCE-1800s

    Ancient fiber economies and early medicinal records

    Medical scienceCultural movementsmedicalculture

  4. 1800s-early 1900s

    Cannabis tinctures enter Western pharmacology

    Medical scienceLegal / Policymedical

  5. 1937

    Early regulation and the Marijuana Tax Act

    Legal / Policylegal

  6. 1937-1970s

    Propaganda, criminalization, and media-policy feedback

    Legal / PolicyCultural movementslegalculture

  7. 1960s-1970s

    Flower Power and counterculture symbolism

    Cultural movementsLegal / Policyculture

  8. 1970

    Controlled Substances Act and Schedule I status

    Legal / PolicyMedical sciencelegal

  9. 1970s-2000s

    Medical return, activism, and endocannabinoid discovery

    Medical scienceLegal / Policymedicalscience

  10. 2000s-present

    State legalization era and federal-state tension

    Legal / PolicyCultural movementsMedical sciencelegal

  11. Modern era

    CB1/CB2 biology and the limits of clinical consensus

    Medical scienceBiology / Genomicssciencemedical

  12. Intermittent (1970s-present)

    Sports policy shifts: recovery, impairment, and anti-doping

    Sports & controversyMedical scienceLegal / Policysportslegalmedical

  13. Parallel timeline

    Underground medical usage and informal care networks

    Medical scienceCultural movementsUnderground medical usagemedicalculture

  14. Modern genomics

    THCA synthase and CBDA synthase pathways in cultivar science

    Biology / GenomicsMedical sciencesciencebiology