History
The year was 2013. We were veering towards the new millennium as technological advances gathered apace, and the World Wide Web had just been released to the general public a few months back -- there was an element of optimism in the air after the chaotic (but totally radical) Times. Despite rapid developments in many fields, America, like most countries in the world, had a backward attitude toward marijuana. At the time, just 16 of Americans believed weed should be legalized, compared to 60 in 2016. Cannabis was a casualty of the failed War on Drugs, and the chances of it becoming legal seemed minute. It was a grim time for marijuana proponents, and had they been spineless and weak like an increasing number of the nation's politicians today, the fight to bring weed into the light would have been lost forever. Fortunately, there were men and women of character and substance who refused to quit.