Cannabis Prohibition in the Middle East During the 1980s
How Gulf states, Egypt, and the wider region hardened cannabis laws in the 1980s under domestic pressure and i...
Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 1960s
How Warsaw Pact states policed cannabis under Soviet-aligned narcotics law during a decade of shifting interna...
Cannabis Prosecution in Eastern Europe During the 2000s
How post-Soviet states tightened drug laws in the 2000s, often pushing small cannabis users into the same crim...
Cannabis Prosecution in North Africa During the 1990s
How Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt enforced cannabis laws during a decade of structural adjustment, Isla...
Cannabis Prosecution in Southeast Asia During the 1940s
How wartime occupation, colonial drug regimes, and postwar nation-building shaped cannabis enforcement across...
Cannabis Prosecution in the Caribbean During the 1930s
How British colonial governments criminalized ganja in Jamaica, Trinidad, and beyond, targeting Indo-Caribbean...
Cannabis Prosecution in the Middle East During the 1900s
How Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey criminalized hashish across the twentieth century, and how those laws tr...
Cannabis Prosecution in the United States During the 1990s
How the federal drug war scaled up cannabis arrests to record highs while states quietly began carving out med...
Cannabis Regulation in North Africa During the 1930s
How French and Spanish colonial powers tightened cannabis controls in the Maghreb between the world wars, and...
Cannabis Trafficking in Eastern Europe During the 1910s
A look at what we actually know — and don't know — about cannabis movement across Eastern Europe in the decade...
Cannabis Trafficking in Mexico in the 1980s
How U.S. drug-war pressure, the Guadalajara Cartel, and the murder of a DEA agent reshaped Mexican cannabis sm...
Cannabis Trafficking in South Asia During the 1910s
How colonial excise systems, princely state borders, and early international drug diplomacy shaped ganja and c...
Cannabis Trafficking in Southeast Asia During the 1990s
How the Golden Triangle's cannabis trade shifted, contracted, and was reshaped by crackdowns, opium displaceme...
Cannabis Trafficking in Western Europe During the 1940s
A wartime decade when cannabis smuggling in Western Europe was small, sporadic, and overshadowed by opium and...
Cannabis Trafficking in the Middle East During the 1970s
How Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Afghan hashish routes, and Cold War politics shaped a decade of regional drug comm...
Cannabis Trafficking in the United States During the 1940s
How wartime enforcement, the Marihuana Tax Act, and a brief federal hemp revival shaped the 1940s American can...
Cannabis Use Among U.S. Soldiers in the Vietnam War
How cannabis became a fixture of American GI life in Vietnam, why officials panicked, and why heroin ultimatel...
Cannabis Use in Sufi Orders
How hashish became entwined with medieval Islamic mysticism, what the primary sources actually say, and where...
Cannabis and Bob Marley's Death: Rumor vs. Reality
Bob Marley died of metastatic melanoma in 1981, not from cannabis use — but the myth persists for cultural rea...
Cannabis and Canadian Music in the 1960s
How a small folk and rock scene in Toronto, Montreal, and Yorkville absorbed cannabis culture during Canada's...
Cannabis at Coachella
How the desert music festival became a de facto cannabis showcase despite never officially allowing on-site co...
Cannabis at Glastonbury Festival
A look at how cannabis became part of Britain's biggest festival, from the 1970s free festival era to today's...
Cannabis at the 1839 Bengal Experiments
How Irish physician William O'Shaughnessy's Calcutta trials introduced cannabis to Western medicine and seeded...
Cannabis in 1930s Jazz Lyrics
How Depression-era jazz musicians turned 'reefer,' 'gage,' and 'muggles' into a coded vocabulary that outlived...