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Cannabis Literature in North Africa During the 2000s

How Moroccan and Algerian writers documented cannabis use in the early 21st century.

6 sources 5 days 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 4 months ago

Cannabis Literature in South America During the 2000s

How a decade of drug policy debate, activist journalism, and academic research produced a distinctly South Ame...

9 sources 2 months 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 2 months ago

Cannabis Literature in South Asia During the 1970s

How Western counterculture writers, Indian scholarship, and UN drug policy collided to produce a distinctive b...

7 sources 1 month ago

Cannabis Literature in Sub-Saharan Africa During the 1930s

How colonial officials, missionaries, and early ethnographers wrote about dagga, bhang, and diamba — and shape...

5 sources 1 month 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

Cannabis Literature in Western Europe during the 1930s

A decade when European medical journals quietly dropped cannabis while sensational press and pulp fiction ampl...

8 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 3 months 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 4 months ago

Cannabis Literature in the Caribbean During the 1950s

How colonial reports, Rastafari testimony, and early ethnographic studies shaped how cannabis was written abou...

8 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 4 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 5 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 3 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago

Cannabis Music in Mexico During the 1910s

How the Mexican Revolution era produced 'La Cucaracha' and other folk songs that embedded marihuana into popul...

5 sources 3 months ago

Cannabis Music in Mexico During the 1940s

How corridos and boleros about marijuana survived prohibition, radio bans, and shaped the folklore that later...

7 sources 2 months ago

Cannabis Music in Mexico During the 1950s

How corridos, boleros, and the enduring 'La Cucaracha' myth shaped mid-century Mexican songs about marijuana.

7 sources 2 months 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 months ago