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Cannabis Activism in the Middle East During the 1990s

A look at what actually happened with cannabis policy and advocacy across the region in the 1990s — and why th...

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Cannabis Activism in the United States During the 1970s

The decade cannabis reform went from fringe cause to eleven-state decriminalization movement before Reagan-era...

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Cannabis Advertising Bans: A History

How governments from the 1930s to today have restricted cannabis promotion, and why most current rules look li...

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Cannabis Arrests and Racial Disparity in the United States

A century of drug enforcement data showing that cannabis laws have been applied unequally by race, despite sim...

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Cannabis Buyers' Clubs of the 1990s

How a network of underground compassion clubs in the United States laid the groundwork for medical cannabis le...

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Cannabis Culture in Canada During the 1960s

How a fringe substance became a mainstream youth phenomenon and provoked Canada's first serious rethink of dru...

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Cannabis Culture in Eastern Europe During the 2000s

How EU accession, post-Soviet legal shifts, and rising domestic cultivation reshaped cannabis in the former Ea...

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Cannabis Culture in Eastern Europe in the 1990s

How the post-Soviet decade reshaped cannabis use, trade, and policy across the former Eastern Bloc.

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Cannabis Culture in Mexico During the 1970s

The decade when Mexican cannabis dominated the US market, paraquat spraying began, and 'Acapulco Gold' became...

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Cannabis Culture in Mexico During the 2000s

A decade defined by record seizures, the militarized drug war, and a slow shift in public attitudes toward mar...

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Cannabis Culture in South America During the 1930s

How a plant carried by enslaved Africans and Indian indentured workers became a target of early prohibition ca...

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Cannabis Culture in South America During the 1990s

How democratization, hip-hop, rock en español, and Andean smuggling routes shaped a distinctly South American...

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Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1900s

How dagga, bangi, and diamba shaped 20th-century African societies under colonial prohibition, labor migration...

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Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1910s

A decade when centuries-old African cannabis traditions collided with colonial prohibition campaigns and early...

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Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1920s

How dagga, bhang, and diamba fit into African labor, ritual, and colonial anxieties in a decade that reshaped...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Culture in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1930s

How dagga, bangi, and njemu were used, policed, and mythologized across a continent under colonial rule in the...

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Cannabis Culture in Western Europe During the 1970s

How hashish from Morocco, Lebanon, and Afghanistan reshaped European youth culture and drug policy in a single...

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Cannabis Culture in the Caribbean During the 1910s

How Indian indentured laborers, colonial anxieties, and early prohibition shaped ganja use across the British...

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Cannabis Culture in the Caribbean During the 1960s

How ganja moved from Indian indentured laborers' fields to Rastafari sacrament and global counterculture expor...

7 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Culture in the Middle East During the 1970s

How Lebanese hash production peaked, Afghan resin reached Western markets, and regional crackdowns reshaped a...

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Cannabis Film in Canada During the 2000s

How Canadian filmmakers turned legalization debates, grow-op panic, and stoner comedy into a distinct decade o...

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Cannabis Film in the United States During the 1990s

How the 1990s turned stoner cinema from countercultural fringe into a mainstream Hollywood genre with lasting...

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Cannabis Film in the United States During the 2000s

How stoner cinema went mainstream in the 2000s, from Harold & Kumar to Pineapple Express, and what that decade...

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Cannabis Indica in Victorian Medicine

How a Bengal-based Irish doctor introduced Indian hemp to British pharmacopoeia, and how it quietly fell out o...

10 sources 3 months ago