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January 2, 1994: 2C-B was added to Schedule
I through the emergency scheduling process, making it illegal
to possess or sell in the United States.
January 11, 1906: Albert Hofmann was born.
January 14, 1967: The first “Human Be-In” was
held in San Francisco.
January 16, 1919: The “prohibition amendment”
was ratified, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution.
January 23, 1912: The world’s first international anti-drug treaty, the Hague Convention, was signed.
February 9, 1909: Congress passed the Opium Exclusion Act, forbidding
importation of smoking opium.
February 18, 2000: GHB was placed in Schedule One when President
Clinton signed the "Hillary J. Farias and Samantha Reid
Date-Rape Drug Prohibition Act of 2000."
February 21, 2006 The US Supreme Court unanimously approved the religious use of ayahuasca by the Uniao do Vegetal (UDV).
February 24, 2004: Dr. Michael Mithoefer received a DEA license,
allowing MAPS’ MDMA/PTSD study to begin.
February 28, 1953: Francis Crick first conceived of the double-helix
shape of DNA while under the influence of LSD, later winning
the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
March 1, 1915: Harrison Act took effect.
March 4, 1971: The Experiment at La Chorrera, conducted by Terence and Dennis McKenna.
March 23, 1988: MDMA was permanently placed in Schedule 1.
March 25, 1966: Life Magazine published a cover article about
LSD (“LSD: The Exploding Threat of the Mind Drug that
Got Out of Control”), contributing to public hysteria
and legislative restrictions.
April 1, 2004: ABC News aired a groundbreaking hour-long
documentary, “Ecstasy Rising,” produced and narrated
by Peter Jennings, analyzing the government’s “War
on Ecstasy” and the therapeutic potentials of MDMA.
April 3, 2000: Terence McKenna died.
April 6, 1931: Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass) was born.
April 7, 1956: Humphrey Osmond coined the term psychedelic,
a neologism derived from the Greek words for "mind,"
(psyche), and "manifest," (delein).
April 8, 1986: MAPS was officially incorporated.
April 16, 1943: Albert Hofmann discovered LSD’s psychedelic
effects, after accidentally absorbing a minute dose.
April 19, 1943: Three days later, Hofmann became the first
human to intentionally ingest LSD. This day has become known
as “Bicycle Day,” in honor of his famous ride
home from the laboratory under the influence of LSD.
April 20, 1962: Walter Pahnke’s “Good Friday
Experiment” took place at Boston University’s
Marsh Chapel. Ten Protestant Divinity students were given
psilocybin in order to investigate the potential of psychedelic
drugs to facilitate mystical experience in prepared subjects.
May 7, 1906: A precursor to prohibition—Congress passed the DC Pharmacy and Poisons Act, making it a crime for pharmacies to sell certain narcotics without a doctor’s prescription.
May 13, 1957: Gordon Wasson published an article about psychoactive
mushrooms in Life Magazine, the first popular media coverage
of their existence.
May 18, 1936: Ralph Metzner was born.
May 31, 1996: Timothy Leary died.
June 10, 1994: Congress passed the “American Indian
Religious Freedom Act,” allowing certain Native American
groups to consume peyote legally.
June 14, 1964: Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters
left Perry Lane in Furthur, their psychedelic 1939 International
Harvester school bus, and began their legendary cross-country
bus trip to the 1964 World's Fair in New York.
June, 17, 1925: Sasha Shulgin is born
June 21, 1986: The birth of Burning Man: Larry Harvey and
his friend Jerry James burned a wooden man on the beach near
San Francisco.
June 25,1975: The psychoactive effects of 2C-B were first
discovered by its inventor, chemist Alexander Shulgin.
June 25, 2001: MAPS and Dr. Lyle Craker initially apply to
the DEA for a Schedule One license to grow marijuana for FDA-approved
medical research at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
June 29, 1955: R. Gordon Wasson participated in a “mushroom
velada” led by the Mexican curandera Maria Sabina, confirming
the previously-debated existence of psychoactive mushrooms.
June 30, 1906: The Pure Food & Drugs Act passed, establishing federal
control of drugs through Dept. of Agriculture’s Bureau of Chemistry,
a predecessor of FDA.
July 1, 1931: Pioneer psychedelic psychotherapist Dr. Stanislav
Grof was born.
July 1,1985: MDMA was temporarily placed into Schedule One
under emergency schedule provisions.
July 1, 2000: The Lindesmith Center merged with the Drug
Policy Foundation to form the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA).
July 15, 1889: San Francisco approved its Cocaine/Morphine
Ordinance, the first legislation specifically outlawing recreational
drug use. Specifically, the ordinance made it a crime to prescribe
cocaine, opium or morphine for the purpose of satisfying “curiosity
or to experience any of the sensations produced thereby”.
July 17, 1968: The Beatles’ animated film, Yellow Submarine,
premiered in London.
July 21, 2004: MAPS, Prof. Lyle Craker and Valerie Corral file lawsuits against the DEA, HHS, NIH, and NIDA for obstructing medical marijuana research.
July 24, 1967: The Beatles pay for a full page advertisement in the newspaper, reading “The law against marijuana is immoral in principle and unworkable in practice.” The ad calls for the legalization of marijuana possession, release of all prisoners on pot possession charges and government research into medical uses.
July 26, 2001: The British business magazine The Economist devotes an entire issue to drug policy, endorsing decriminalization and harm reduction.
July 31, 2000: In Canada, Ontario’s top court rules unanimously (3-0) that Canada’s law making marijuana possession a crime is unconstitutional because it does not take into account the needs of Canadian medical marijuana patients.
August 2, 1937: The Marijuana Tax Act is passed by Congress, enacting marijuana prohibition at the federal level for the first time.
August 2, 1977: In a speech to Congress, Jimmy Carter addresses the harm done by prohibition, saying, “Penalties against a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana for personal use. The National Commission on Marijuana… concluded years ago that marijuana should be decriminalized, and I believe it is time to implement those basic recommendations.”
August 12,1999: Ketamine became illegal (schedule III) in
the U.S.
August 18, 1969: Jimi Hendrix played the Star-Spangled Banner
at Woodstock while high on LSD.
August 28, 1964: The Beatles are introduced to Bob Dylan
by reporter Alan Aronowitz, and try marijuana for the first
time.
August 29, 1956:
Bill Wilson, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took LSD (then legal) under a
doctor's supervision.
September 2, 2006: MAPS celebrates its twentieth anniversary
at Burning Man.
September 14, 1978: Home brewing of beer was legalized for
the first time since Prohibition.
September 18, 1997: Dr Donald Abrams received a $1 million
NIDA grant to begin the first marijuana research with a patient
population in 15 years, studying AIDS Wasting Syndrome.
October 1, 1937: The Marihuana Tax Act took effect, beginning
the process of marijuana criminalization in the United States.
October 6, 1966: California became the first state to criminalize
LSD.
October 13, 1993: Kary Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Chemistry. His discoveries and methods using PCR (Polymerase
Chain Reaction), for which he credits his use of LSD and marijuana,
allow researchers to identify, isolate, and replicate any
DNA sequence.
October 18, 1958 Post magazine printed “Drugs that Shape Men’s Minds,” by Aldous Huxley.
October 23, 2001: Britain's Home Secretary, David Blunkett, proposed
the re-classification of cannabis from Class B to Class C.
Cannabis was soon decriminalized in Great Britain.
October 24, 1968: Possession of psilocybin & psilocin
became illegal in the US.
October 27, 1970: The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention
and Control Act was passed. Part II of this was the Controlled
Substance Act (CSA), which defined a scheduling system for
drugs. It placed most known psychedelics (LSD, psilocybin,
psilocin, mescaline) in Schedule I.
November 5, 1996: California passed Proposition 215, the
Compassionate Use Act, becoming the first state to decriminalize
the medicinal use of marijuana.
November 15, 1875: Passage of first US anti-drug law, the SF Opium Den Ordinance.
November 22, 1963: Aldous Huxley used LSD to enhance his
awareness as he died.
November 23, 1919: Mescaline was first isolated and identified
by Dr. Arthur Heffter.
December 5, 1933: The prohibition of alcohol was repealed
with the passage of the 21st Amendment.
December 17, 1914: US Congress passed the Harrison Narcotics
Act, officially initiating the modern War on Drugs.
December 24, 1912: The pharmaceutical company Merck patented
MDMA. Its psychoactive effects remained unknown for more than
60 years.
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MAPS is pleased to present our second wall calendar, featuring the works of Roberto Venosa, Martina Hoffmann, Alex & Allyson Grey, Dean Chamberlain, and others. The months
of 2007 are decorated with a collection of psychedelically-inspired art pieces. Each month also contains a list of important dates in drug history.
