History Lab · The Long Braid

The oldest thing people made from cannabis is rope, so its history is drawn as one. Each coloured strand is a way people have used the plant, and a strand grows thicker where it has more events and thinner where it has few. Click a knot to open an event: what happened, how sure we are, the sources, and where it corrects what used to be said. Real historical images are credited and licensed; era scenes and some card images are labelled AI-generated illustrations. A living history: it changes as research lands.

Social Impact: prohibition, the drug war and the people it reached →