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History Curriculum:
The history section of our education program offers students the opportunity to sit in a time machine and experience the birth of marijuana from its early "historical uses" to its migration and transformation into the contemporary world. It develops a critical intelligence and fosters an understanding for the only way of truly understanding and appreciating the cultural and social significance of cannabis- through the study of the past.
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HISTORY
History 1 – The global history of hemp
Summary: Learn about mankind’s long and fruitful relationship with cannabis. This journey through time looks at the global history of hemp in its’ earliest known uses and its’ evolution into modern society.
- The history of hemp from 8000 B.C. to present.
- The many uses of hemp from textiles to automobiles to oils.
- Following the path of cannabis from its’ early discoveries to the New World.
- American prohibition and the propaganda machine.
History 51 – From Counter Culture to Popular Culture
Summary: This course focuses on the cultural and social progressions of cannabis in modern history. Covers the role of hemp in the modern world, the counter culture of the 1960s and today’s medical marijuana movement.
- From cradle to cave: If marijuana was legal since the beginning of time, what led to prohibition?
- How did the “counter culture” of the 1960s alter views of cannabis and what movements became of them?
- Traces America’s love-hate relationship with marijuana over the past several decades.
- How has the ideology of marijuana activism transformed over time and how big has the movement become?
Related Topics: Marijuana Politics, Marijuana Law
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