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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 weeks ago

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...

11 sources 3 weeks ago

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 1 month ago

Cannabis Legalization Efforts in South America During the 1930s

A short answer to a question with a false premise: the 1930s in South America were defined by prohibition, not...

10 sources 2 hours ago

Cannabis Literature in 1960s America

How a decade of beat poets, underground newspapers, and pulp paperbacks rewrote the public image of marijuana...

10 sources 2 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in Australia and New Zealand During the 1900s

A century of pamphlets, parliamentary reports, underground manuals, and academic work that shaped Antipodean c...

8 sources 2 days ago

Cannabis Literature in East Asia During the 1940s

A look at what was actually written about cannabis in Japan, China, and Korea during a turbulent wartime decad...

9 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in South America During the 1990s

How a sparse but pivotal decade of South American books, zines, and harm-reduction pamphlets laid groundwork f...

8 sources 5 days ago

Cannabis Literature in Western Europe During the 1910s

How pharmacology texts, colonial reports, and literary fragments framed hashish and Indian hemp on the eve of...

9 sources 2 days ago

Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1930s

How colonial reports, sensational press, and early ethnographic writing shaped how the British Caribbean wrote...

9 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1900s

How twentieth-century Middle Eastern writers, physicians, and historians documented hashish culture between pr...

7 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 1910s

A transitional decade when Arabic and Persian writing on hashish shifted from poetry and pharmacology toward c...

6 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Music in North Africa During the 1930s

How kif-themed chaabi and Andalusian songs from Morocco and Algeria documented hashish culture during the Fren...

7 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Music in South Asia During the 1970s

How devotional bhajans, Bollywood charas anthems, and Western hippie crossover shaped a decade of cannabis-cod...

7 sources 3 days ago

Cannabis Music in Southeast Asia During the 1980s

A look at what's actually documented about cannabis-themed music in 1980s Southeast Asia, versus what's been r...

9 sources 2 weeks ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1910s

What we actually know — and don't know — about cannabis-themed song traditions in sub-Saharan Africa during th...

6 sources 2 days ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1990s

How African reggae, kwaito, and hip hop scenes engaged with cannabis culture during a decade of political tran...

7 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 2000s

How reggae, hip hop, kwaito, and Afrobeats artists across the continent made cannabis a recurring theme in 200...

9 sources 2 days ago

Cannabis Music in the United States During the 1990s

How hip-hop, alt-rock, and reggae fusion turned weed from countercultural symbol into mainstream pop-music sho...

9 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Policy Under the Obama Administration

How a federal enforcement pullback, the Cole Memo, and banking guidance reshaped American cannabis between 200...

15 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Policy in the Middle East During the 1950s

A decade defined by prohibition crackdowns and international drug treaties, not legalization, despite popular...

9 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Prohibition and Reform in 20th-Century Mexico

How Mexico went from being the country that exported the word 'marijuana' to one of the earliest nations to pr...

8 sources 5 days ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Australia and New Zealand (1900s)

How two Pacific nations criminalised cannabis with little local evidence of harm, driven mainly by internation...

12 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico During the 1910s

How revolutionary-era Mexico became one of the first countries in the Americas to ban cannabis, and the myths...

5 sources 1 week ago