--- title: Pot on TIME: 5 Articles About Marijuana on the Cover of TIME description: Two decades of the drug canonical: https://time.com/3858507/pot-marijuana-cover-time/ author: Lily Rothman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-14T15:05:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:41:08.191Z article:section: History og:title: Pot on TIME: 5 Articles About Marijuana on the Cover of TIME og:description: See how society's view evolved over the decades og:url: https://time.com/3858507/pot-marijuana-cover-time/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Pot on TIME: 5 Articles About Marijuana on the Cover of TIME twitter:description: See how society's view evolved over the decades twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # TIME on Pot: 5 Cover Stories About Marijuana > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Inside A Christian Pot Shop [Watch (HLS stream): Inside A Christian Pot Shop](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/vz4fpqkC.m3u8) (5:22)  _Published 2014-04-03. Bryan and Lanette Davies run a Christian medical marijuana dispensary in Sacramento. After God told Bryan to open a cannabis shop, the couple say they have been doing God's work in providing natural care to the sick._  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. May 14, 2015 3:05 PM UTC  by [Lily Rothman](https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Rothman is managing editor at TIME. May 14, 2015 3:05 PM UTC This week’s TIME cover story examines how little we actually know about marijuana’s effects on our brains, even as cities and states around the United States are legalizing the drug. It’s not the first time marijuana has been cover-story material. TIME has published five cover stories about the drug that, taken together, show how society’s view of marijuana has evolved over two decades. **_Read the new cover story here, on Time.com:_** [The Great Pot Experiment](http://time.com/3858353/the-great-pot-experiment/)  The Dec. 9, 1996, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GARY TRUDEAU  The Nov. 4, 2002, cover of TIME Cover Credit: TED THAI, ARTHUR HOCHSTEIN, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/PHOTO RESEARCHERS  The Nov. 22, 2010, cover of TIME Cover Credit: PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEFF RIEDEL FOR TIME  The April 21, 2014, cover of TIME Photograph by Jamie Chung for TIME  The May 25, 2015, cover of TIME Photo-illustration by Brobel Design for TIME. 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