1. Did you know that Beer & Cannabis are Cousins? That’s right, beer hops are in the same family of flowering plants. No wonder they’re both loved so much.
2. Ok artist, Did you know that “canvas” is derived from “cannabis.” Historically canvases were made from hemp.
3. If cannabis were to become legal it would generate around $8.7 billion in federal and state tax revenue per year! That means more funds for education, human services, healthcare, and environmental projects. What’s the hold-up!
4. In Alaska, cannabis has been legal for personal use since 1975 and is still legal to this day.
5. We all know that cannabis stuns cancer growth, but do you know how? A cannabis-derived compound prevents cancer cells from spreading by freezing them.
6. George Washington grew cannabis on his Mount Vernon plantation. He called it hemp, but we know what was really up.
8. Ironically, California was the first state that banned cannabis over a century ago.
9. In 2013, the first country in the world to make cannabis legal to grow and consume was Uruguay.
10. The U.S. Military created synthetic cannabis called “Dimethylheptylpyrn” that could last up to 3 days with only 1mg.
11. Another ironic fact, the first arrest ever for cannabis possession and intent to sell in the U.S. was on October 2, 1937, in Denver, Colorado.
12. Speaking of Colorado, since the legalization of recreational marijuana, cannabis dispensaries outnumber Starbucks locations 3 to 1!
13. From 1938 to 1962 the U.S government “official expert” on cannabis once testified under oath in court that he had once smoked cannabis and it turned him into a bat… yes, a bat.
14. Jah Bless! Rastafarians are legally allowed to possess cannabis in Italy because it is a sacrament to their religion.
15. In 2008, 789 grams of cannabis was found in a Chinese tomb. That’s 2,700-year-old weed!
16. In 1971, the 1st thing ever bought and sold over the internet was a bag of cannabis. Allegedly it was a Stanford student purchasing it from a student at MIT.
17. Bob Marley was buried with his red Gibson guitar, a cannabis bud, and a Bible open to Psalms 23 which states “The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures.”
18. In college, Barack Obama was a member of the “Choom Gang,” which was a group of boys who played basketball and smoked cannabis.
19. When marijuana becomes legal in all 50 states, the industry will become bigger than the organic food market.
20. Marijuana is the most common scheduled drug used in the U.S. Approximately 100,000,000 American shave tried marijuana at least once and more than 25,000,000 have smoked it in the last year.
21. 158.8 million people around the world use marijuana according to the U.N. That’s over 3.8% of the world’s population!
22. Cannabis seeds were used as a food source in China as early as 6000 B.C.
23. The largest producer of cannabis is believed to be Paraguay.
24. The first flag of the U.S. made by Betsy Ross was made of hemp.
25. You would have to smoke over 1,500 pounds of marijuana within 15 minutes overdose on marijuana, so in other words, it’s practically impossible to die from marijuana.