First documented uses of hemp in Japan and China

8000 –5000 BC

2737 BC

The first documented use of cannabis-derived medicine by Chinese Emperor Sheng Nung

Herodotus reports of cannabis use by Scythians

Ca. 480 BC

1619

Virginia passes an act requiring all planters to sow hemp on their plantations

U.S. founding fathers George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and John Adams grow hemp

1790s

1839

Irish physician and medical researcher, William B. O’Shaughnessy, publishes the first modern study investigating the therapeutic effects of cannabis

CANNABIS DELEGALISED
In 1937, ‘The Marihuana Tax Act’ enforced under the direction of Prohibition Commissioner Harry Anslinger, practically delegalizes cannabis and hemp

1937

1940

Dr Roger Adams, American chemist successfully isolates the first cannabinoid, Cannabidiol (CBD).

Dr Mechoulam first studies on therapeutic effects of CBD

1980s

1992

Endocannabinoid System (ECS) discovered

FARM BILL legalises hemp in the US

2018

2019

RESCHEDULING OF CANNABIS
World Health Organisation (WHO) Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) recommends rescheduling cannabis and CBD