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Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Canada During the 1950s

A short answer to a common search: there were essentially no organized legalization efforts in Canada during t...

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Cannabis Legalization Efforts in East Asia During the 1960s

A short answer to a common question: there was essentially no meaningful cannabis legalization movement in Eas...

5 sources 3 weeks 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 1 month ago

Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1980s

A look at what actually happened with cannabis policy in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1980s versus what the i...

9 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Legalization Efforts in Western Europe (1900s)

How the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and their neighbours moved from prohibition toward tolerance across the tw...

14 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Legalization Efforts in the United States During the 1900s

A century of criminalization, backlash, and the slow, uneven return of legal cannabis in America from 1900 to...

10 sources 4 weeks 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 months 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 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in Canada During the 1910s

A look at what Canadians were actually reading and writing about cannabis in the decade before it was criminal...

8 sources 1 month 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 2 months ago

Cannabis Literature in Mexico During the 1970s

How a decade of drug war escalation and countercultural writing shaped Mexican cannabis discourse in print.

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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 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in South Asia During the 1920s

How colonial administrators, Indian physicians, and international treaties shaped the written record of cannab...

5 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in Western Europe During the 1900s

How French decadents, medical journals, and countercultural presses shaped a century of European writing about...

10 sources 1 month 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 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1910s

How colonial commissions, medical journals, and newspaper editorials in the British and Dutch Caribbean framed...

6 sources 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 month ago

Cannabis Literature in the Middle East During the 2000s

A decade when Arabic and Persian scholarship on hashish moved from marginal drug-history footnotes into seriou...

8 sources 1 day ago

Cannabis Literature in the United States During the 1940s

How the 1940s produced a strange mix of federal propaganda, pulp scare novels, jazz memoirs, and the first ser...

12 sources 3 weeks ago

Cannabis Literature in the United States During the 1990s

How a decade of grow guides, activist manifestos, and cultural chronicles built the modern American cannabis c...

15 sources 3 weeks 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 month ago