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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 1 month 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 1 month 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 Literature in the Middle East During the 1960s

How Beat writers, ethnographers, and Lebanese hash traders shaped Western cannabis writing during a decade of...

10 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Music in Australia and New Zealand During the 1910s

A search for antipodean cannabis songs from the 1910s turns up almost nothing — and that absence is itself the...

10 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Music in East Asia During the 1990s

A brief look at how cannabis references appeared in East Asian popular music during the 1990s, and why the rec...

7 sources 18 hours 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 month 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 weeks ago

Cannabis Music in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1960s

How dagga, diamba, and bangi found their way into the lyrics and underground scenes of African popular music d...

7 sources 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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 1 month 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 3 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 1 month 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 3 weeks 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 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico in the 1910s

How revolutionary-era Mexico moved toward a national cannabis ban while folklore about 'marihuana madness' too...

6 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in Mexico in the 1920s

Mexico banned cannabis cultivation and sale in 1920, nearly two decades before the United States passed the Ma...

7 sources 2 days ago

Cannabis Prohibition in North Africa During the 20th Century

How colonial monopolies, independence-era nationalism, and Cold War drug treaties turned a centuries-old kif c...

10 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1970s

How Cold War politics, US pressure, and Rastafari persecution shaped a decade of harsh ganja laws across the r...

11 sources 1 week ago

Cannabis Prohibition in the Caribbean During the 1980s

How the U.S. drug war reshaped ganja policy across Jamaica, the Bahamas, Belize, and the wider region during a...

13 sources 1 month ago